A Man Who Is Certain He Is

If The Term Education May Be Understood In So Large A Sense As To Include All That Belongs To The Improvement Of The Mind, Either By The Acquisition Of The Knowledge Of Others Or By Increase Of It Through Its Own Exertions, We Learn By Them What Is The Kind Of Education Science Offers To Man. It Teaches Us To Be Neglectful Of Nothing - Not To Despise The Small Beginnings, For They Precede Of Necessity All Great Things In The Knowledge Of Science, Either Pure Or Applied.

Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True, If It Be Consistent With The Laws Of Nature.

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.

With Respect To Committees As You Would Perceive I Am Very Jealous Of Their Formation. I Mean Working Committees. I Think Business Is Always Better Done By Few Than By Many.

Who Would Not Have Been Laughed At If He Had Said In 1800 That Metals Could Be Extracted From Their Ores By Electricity Or That Portraits Could Be Drawn By Chemistry.