George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver, was an American botanist and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he was born into slavery in Missouri, either in 1861, or January 1864...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 July 1864
CityDiamond, MO
CountryUnited States of America
giving-up flower secret
I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .
secret
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
discovery sells
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
flower years long
When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
teacher dark sunrise
Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
new-beginnings today-not-tomorrow words-of-wisdom
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
flower littles woods
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
use
There is a use for almost everything.
writing glasses effort
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.
sleep thinking last-words
I think I'll sleep now.
real successful dark
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.
discovery self knows
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.