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Ellen Swallow Richards
(3 Dec 1842 - 30 Mar 1911)
American chemist.
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Science Quotes by Ellen Swallow Richards (1 quote)
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
— Ellen Swallow Richards
Quoted in Robert Clarke (ed.), Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology (1973), 120.
See also:
- 3 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Richards's birth.
- Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology, by Robert Clarke. - book suggestion.