It Must Always Be Borne In Mind

The Most Important Of My Discoveries Have Been Suggested To Me By Failures.

What Is Politeness In The Home But The Outcome Of Affection And Self-respect, And The Suppression Of All Those Natural Instincts Of Self-seeking That, Allowed Their Way, Produce The Worst Manners In The World?

James Watt Was Equally Distinguished As A Natural Philosopher And Chemist; His Inventions Demonstrate His Profound Knowledge Of Those Sciences, And That Peculiar Characteristic Of Genius - The Union Of Them For Practical Application.

If I Am Allowed To Give A Metaphorical Allusion To The Future State Of The Blessed, I Should Imagine It By The Orange-grove In That Sheltered Glen On Which The Sun Is Now Beginning To Shine, And Of Which The Trees Are At The Same Time, Loaded With Sweet Golden Fruit And Balmy Silver Flowers. Such Objects May Well Portray A State In Which Hope And Fruition Become One Eternal Feeling.

But If The Two Countries Or Governments Are At War, The Men Of Science Are Not. That Would, Indeed Be A Civil War Of The Worst Description: We Should Rather, Through The Instrumentality Of The Men Of Science Soften The Asperities Of National Hostility. Davy's Remarks To Thomas Poole On Accepting Napoleon's Prize For The Best Experiment On Galvanism.