A Man Who Is Certain He Is

The World Little Knows How Many Of The Thoughts And Theories Which Have Passed Through The Mind Of A Scientific Investigator, Have Been Crushed In Silence And Secrecy By His Own Severe Criticism And Adverse Examination!

I Happen To Have Discovered A Direct Relation Between Magnetism And Light, Also Electricity And Light, And The Field It Opens Is So Large And I Think Rich.

Your Remarks Upon Chemical Notation With The Variety Of Systems Which Have Arisen, &c., &c., Had Almost Stirred Me Up To Regret Publicly That Such Hindrances To The Progress Of Science Should Exist. I Cannot Help Thinking It A Most Unfortunate Thing That Men Who As Experimentalists & Philosophers Are The Most Fitted To Advance The General Cause Of Science & Knowledge Should By Promulgation Of Their Own Theoretical Views Under The Form Of Nomenclature, Notation, Or Scale, Actually Retard Its Progress.

Lectures Which Really Teach Will Never Be Popular; Lectures Which Are Popular Will Never Really Teach.

I Will Simply Express My Strong Belief, That That Point Of Self-education Which Consists In Teaching The Mind To Resist Its Desires And Inclinations, Until They Are Proved To Be Right, Is The Most Important Of All, Not Only In Things Of Natural Philosophy, But In Every Department Of Dally Life.