Tryon Edwards

• Born: 1809
• Died: 1894
• Claim to Fame: American theologian and author of well-known quotes

An American theologian and editor, Tryon Edwards was the great, great grandson of Jonathan Edwards, whose works he collected and published in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, D.D. (2 volumes, 1842). Tryon Edwards wrote a memoir that was published in The Collected Works of Joseph Bellamy (1850) and a series of sermons that were published in 1852 as Charity and Its Fruits. In 1877, Edwards compiled A New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations. Still available today, this collection was reprinted by Doubleday in 1960 and was reissued as The World's Greatest Quotations by Crest Publishing House in 2004.

Best-known quotes by Tryon Edwards include:

Last updated: October 18, 2004.

Quotes:

"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated."

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A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Edward P. Tryon is a professor of physics at Hunter College in Manhattan. His specialization is in theoretical quark models, theoretical general relativity, and cosmology. In 1973 he proposed that the Universe is a large-scale vacuum energy fluctuation. He has been quoted as saying, "Our Universe is simply one of those things that happens from time to time."^[1]

Major publications

Tryon, Edward P. "Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation," in Nature, 246(1973), pp. 396-397.

Notes

1. ^ Holt, Jim (1994). "Nothing Ventured" DBanach.com (accessed August 21, 2006)

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