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Elbert (Green) Hubbard
(19 Jun 1856 - 7 May 1915)
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Science Quotes by Elbert (Green) Hubbard (40 quotes)
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A person with strength of character is one who has strong feelings, and strong command over them.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
A pessimist: an optimist out of a job.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
All the world’s a stage, but the parts are often badly cast.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Discontent is inertia on a strike.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Dogmatism has only one eye, but bigotry is stone blind.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Envy is an eyesore engendered by looking at another’s success thru the spectacles of our own inferiority.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Every man has his little weakness. It often takes the form of a desire to get something for nothing.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
For the average mind precedent sanctifies.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Good luck is science not yet classified; just as the supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
He who criticises, be he ever so honest, must suggest a practical remedy or he soon descends from the height of a critic to the level of a common scold.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
I do not believe that God ever created a man and then got so “put out” over the job that He damned him.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
If [a man] is sent to a hospital, he is supplied with a topic of conversation, and often is boastful.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, “It is this, for if it isn’t, then what is it?” And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
It is the patient workers, and the active, kindly sympathetic men and women who hold the balance of things secure.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Life is death on a vacation.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Nature is the great ocean of intelligence in which we are bathed.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
No one ever enjoys any more freedom than he has strength to take and use.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Professor Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, “Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.”
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Success is voltage under control—keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The best men are always first discovered by their enemies: it is the adversary who turns on the searchlight, and the proof of excellence lies in being able to stand the gleam.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The Church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The expression Similia similibus is a Latin phrase and means that an imaginary disease can best be cured by an imaginary remedy.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The men you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors’ offices are, in a vast majority of cases, suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The nation that prepares for war will sooner or later have war. We get just anything we prepare for, and we get nothing else. Everything that happens is a sequence: this happened today because you did that yesterday.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The probable fact is that we are descended not only from monkeys but from monks.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Vivisection is blood-lust, screened behind the sacred name of science.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard