The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred … - Ellen Swallow Richards

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If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Ellen Swallow Richards

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

Body, Bones, Eight, Knowledge, Move, Moving

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Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

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The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

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The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.

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For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name. . . . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life. . . so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives. . . the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found. . . healthy. . . and happy life.

Knowledge, Let, Life, Physical, Religious, Science

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