Henry James Slack

Henry James Slack (23 October 1818 – 16 June 1896) was an English journalist, activist and science writer.

Quotes

  • Science has wonders far transcending those of superstition, and they are poor philosophers who try to bring Nature down to the level of their small capacities instead of striving to exalt those capacities to the height of creation's truth. No savage, worshipping the most preposterous idol, ever believed greater absurdities than a modern sceptic, who makes his small modicum of reason the standard by which to measure the boundless universe.
    • The Ministry of the Beautiful (London: R. Bentley, 1850) VI: A Quarry among the Hills (pp. 96–7)
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