The Whole Of The Developments And Operations

Of Cooking. This Is An Art Of Various Forms, The Object Of Which Is To Give Ordinary Observations The Appearance And Character Of Those Of The Highest Degree Of Accuracy. One Of Its Numerous Processes Is To Make Multitudes Of Observations, And Out Of These To Select Only Those Which Agree, Or Very Nearly Agree. If A Hundred Observations Are Made, The Cook Must Be Very Unhappy If He Cannot Pick Out Fifteen Or Twenty Which Will Do For Serving Up.

Errors Using Inadequate Data Are Much Less Than Those Using No Data At All.

To Those Who Have Chosen The Profession Of Medicine, A Knowledge Of Chemistry, And Of Some Branches Of Natural History, And, Indeed, Of Several Other Departments Of Science, Affords Useful Assistance.

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.

It Can Happen To But Few Philosophers, And But At Distant Intervals, To Snatch A Science, Like Dalton, From The Chaos Of Indefinite Combination, And Binding It In The Chains Of Number, To Exalt It To Rank Amongst The Exact. Triumphs Like These Are Necessarily 'few And Far Between.'