There Are Very Few Persons Who Pursue

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

Oh, Most Magnificent And Noble Nature! Have I Not Worshipped Thee With Such A Love As Never Mortal Man Before Displayed? Adored Thee In Thy Majesty Of Visible Creation, And Searched Into Thy Hidden And Mysterious Ways As Poet, As Philosopher, As Sage?

I Have Learned More From My Mistakes Than From My Successes.

Nothing Is So Dangerous To The Progress Of The Human Mind Than To Assume That Our Views Of Science Are Ultimate, That There Are No Mysteries In Nature, That Our Triumphs Are Complete And That There Are No New Worlds To Conquer.

I Envy No Quality Of The Mind Or Intellect In Others; Not Genius, Power, Wit, Nor Fancy; But, If I Could Choose What Would Be Most Delightful, And, I Believe, Most Useful To Me, I Should Prefer A Firm Religious Belief To Every Other Blessing.