“We are, as it were, laying gunpowder, grain by grain, under the old building of error and superstition, which a single spark may hereafter inflame, so as to produce an instantaneous explosion.”

About Joseph Priestley

Scientist • British

Joseph Priestley was an 18th-century English scientist, theologian, and philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking work in chemistry. He is most famously credited with the discovery of oxygen, which he termed...