Physicist Is Both To My Mouth And

I Could Trust A Fact And Always Cross-question An Assertion.

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 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.

I Am Busy Just Now Again On Electro-magnetism And Think I Have Got Hold Of A Good Thing But Can't Say; It May Be A Weed Instead Of A Fish That After All My Labour I May At Last Pull Up.

In Place Of Practising Wholesome Self-abnegation, We Ever Make The Wish The Father To The Thought: We Receive As Friendly That Which Agrees With, We Resist With Dislike That Which Opposes Us; Whereas The Very Reverse Is Required By Every Dictate Of Common Sense.