William Benjamin Carpenter

thumb|W. B. Carpenter William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist, and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London. Quotes But when Science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of Theology, and sets up its own conception of the Order of Nature as a sufficient account of its Cause, it is invading a province of Thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of those who ought to be its best friends. Address at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Brighton in August 1872: Report of the Forty-second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (London: John Murray, 1873) p. lxxxiv. Attributed to "M. B. Carpenter" [sic] in Josiah H. Gilbert (ed.) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (Troy, NY: H. B. Nims and Co, 1883) p. 530 External links Category:1813 births Category:1885 deaths Category:Physicians from England Category:Zoologists from England Category:Physiologists from England Category:University College London alumni Category:University of Edinburgh alumni