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Sir Joseph Paxton
(3 Aug 1803 - 8 Jun 1865)
English architect who began as a landscaper and later designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London.
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Science Quotes by Sir Joseph Paxton (2 quotes)
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.
— Sir Joseph Paxton
In A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia (1838), 2.
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.
— Sir Joseph Paxton
In A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia (1838), 1-2.
See also:
- 3 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Paxton's birth.
- The Busiest Man in England: A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect & Victorian Visionary, by Kate Colquhoun. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Joseph Paxton.
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) -- 
