Thomas A. Greene (born Rhode Island, 1827; died 1894) was an amateur geologist in Wisconsin, USA. He became successful in the retail drug industry in Milwaukee. He collected minerals and Devonian and Silurian fossils. Following his death, his heirs donated his collection in 1911.
The Thomas A. Green Memorial Museum and Collection is a fireproof museum building, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993, which was built in 1913 by Greene's heirs to house his collection.
Greene collaborated with Fisk Holbrook Day whose former home, the Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
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“Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
and scape forth, since liberty is lever.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)