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In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to t...

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"Orthodoxy my Lord " said Bishop Warburton in a whisper - "orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy...

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my conte...

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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of c...

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1733-1804

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Joseph Priestley

Philosopher

Born: 1733-03-24

Died: 1804-02-06

Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English Unitarian clergyman, theologian, political theorist, and the scientist who is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, as he was the first to isolate it in its gaseous state.More