Samuel Horsley Quotes

United Kingdom, Priest
September 15, 1733 – October, 4, 1806.

Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784.

Also known as Mathematician, Physicist

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Samuel Horsley
- May
- Education
- Government
The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

Samuel Horsley
- May
- Rest
- Connection

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley
- Knowledge
- Quality
- Wonder