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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.
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.
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