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Josiah Willard Gibbs

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

Gibbs

Unassuming in manner, genial and kindly in his intercourse with his fellow-men, never showing impatience or irritation, devoid of personal ambition of the baser sort or of the slightest desire to exalt himself, he went far toward realizing the ideal of the unselfish, Christian gentleman.

In the minds of those who knew him, the greatness of his intellectual achievements will never overshadow the beauty and dignity of his life.

Gibbs Josiah Willard quotes

In all these papers we see a love of honest work, an aversion to shams, a caution in the enunciation of conclusions, a distrust of rash generalizations and speculations based on uncertain premises.

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