The Most Important Of My Discoveries Have

Experimental Science Hardly Ever Affords Us More Than Approximations To The Truth; And Whenever Many Agents Are Concerned We Are In Great Danger Of Being Mistaken.

When Two Elements Combine And Form More Than One Compound, The Masses Of One Element That React With A Fixed Mass Of The Other Are In The Ratio Of Small Whole Numbers.

But If The Two Countries Or Governments Are At War, The Men Of Science Are Not. That Would, Indeed Be A Civil War Of The Worst Description: We Should Rather, Through The Instrumentality Of The Men Of Science Soften The Asperities Of National Hostility. Davy's Remarks To Thomas Poole On Accepting Napoleon's Prize For The Best Experiment On Galvanism.

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?

What Is Politeness In The Home But The Outcome Of Affection And Self-respect, And The Suppression Of All Those Natural Instincts Of Self-seeking That, Allowed Their Way, Produce The Worst Manners In The World?