Henry Smith Williams > Quotes

“When, in the year 1492, Columbus sailed out to the west on his memorable voyage, his expectation of reaching India had full scientific warrant,”
― Henry Smith Williams, A History of Science Volume 2

“the unsolved problems of to-day beckon to the alluring fields of to-morrow.”
― Henry Smith Williams, A History of Science Volume 5 - Aspects of Recent Science

“science, of a kind, is no less a precursor and a cause of civilization than it is a consequent.”
― Henry Smith Williams, A History of Science: Volume I

“mutability of solids and liquids in smelting ores, in alloying copper with tin to make bronze, and in casting this alloy in molds to make”
― Henry Smith Williams, A History of Science: Volume I