In Mathematics We Have Long Since Drawn

Surely, If Knowledge Is Valuable, It Can Never Be Good Policy In A Country Far Wealthier Than Tuscany, To Allow A Genius Like Mr. Dalton's, To Be Employed In The Drudgery Of Elementary Instruction.

Forging Differs From Hoaxing, Inasmuch As In The Later The Deceit Is Intended To Last For A Time, And Then Be Discovered, To The Ridicule Of Those Who Have Credited It; Whereas The Forger Is One Who, Wishing To Acquire A Reputation For Science, Records Observations Which He Has Never Made.

The Influence Of Electricity In Producing Decompositions, Although Of Inestimable Value As An Instrument Of Discovery In Chemical Inquiries, Can Hardly Be Said To Have Been Applied To The Practical Purposes Of Life, Until The Same Powerful Genius [davy] Which Detected The Principle, Applied It, By A Singular Felicity Of Reasoning, To Arrest The Corrosion Of The Copper-sheathing Of Vessels. ... This Was Regarded As By Laplace As The Greatest Of Sir Humphry's Discoveries.

Mechanical Notation ... I Look Upon It As One Of The Most Important Additions I Have Made To Human Knowledge. It Has Placed The Construction Of Machinery In The Rank Of A Demonstrative Science. The Day Will Arrive When No School Of Mechanical Drawing Will Be Thought Complete Without Teaching It.

The Possessors Of Wealth Can Scarcely Be Indifferent To Processes Which, Nearly Or Remotely Have Been The Fertile Source Of Their Possessions.