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Sir Henry Bessemer
(19 Jan 1813 - 15 Mar 1898)
English industrialist, metallurgist, inventor and engineer who developed the Bessemer converter (1855) used for making steel.
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Science Quotes by Sir Henry Bessemer (1 quote)
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
— Sir Henry Bessemer
In Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An Autobiography (1905), 93.
Quotes by others about Sir Henry Bessemer (1)
“Corruptio optimi pessima!”
Grinned Sir Henry Bessemer.
“Judicio vulgi demens!”
Snorted Sir William Siemens.
Grinned Sir Henry Bessemer.
“Judicio vulgi demens!”
Snorted Sir William Siemens.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners (1905). Collected in Biography for Beginners, 1905. Collected in Complete Clerihews (2008), 11. The two Latin phrases are only chosen to rhyme with the names. In fact they mean, in order, “The corruption of the best is the worst of all” and “Mad in the judgment of the mob.”
See also:
- 19 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bessemer's birth.
- An English Opinion of the United States Patent Office Management - from Scientific American (1857)
- Sir Henry Bessemer: An Autobiography, by Henry Bessemer. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
