I Could Trust A Fact And Always

Magnetic Lines Of Force Convey A Far Better And Purer Idea Than The Phrase Magnetic Current Or Magnetic Flood: It Avoids The Assumption Of A Current Or Of Two Currents And Also Of Fluids Or A Fluid, Yet Conveys A Full And Useful Pictorial Idea To The Mind.

Speculations? I Have None. I Am Resting On Certainties.

The Philosopher Should Be A Man Willing To Listen To Every Suggestion,but Determined To Judge For Himself.he Should Not Be A Respector Of Persons,but Of Things.truth Should Be His Primary Object.

I Am Busy Just Now Again On Electro-magnetism And Think I Have Got Hold Of A Good Thing But Can't Say; It May Be A Weed Instead Of A Fish That After All My Labour I May At Last Pull Up.

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.