A Man Who Is Certain He Is

What A Delight It Is To Think That You Are Quietly & Philosophically At Work In The Pursuit Of Science... Rather Than Fighting Amongst The Crowd Of Black Passions & Motives That Seem Now A Days To Urge Men Every Where Into Action. What Incredible Scenes Every Where, What Unworthy Motives Ruled For The Moment, Under High Sounding Phrases And At The Last What Disgusting Revolutions.

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.

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.

A Man Who Is Certain He Is Right Is Almost Sure To Be Wrong.

I Am No Poet, But If You Think For Yourselves, As I Proceed, The Facts Will Form A Poem In Your Minds.