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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.

I Suppose There Was Never Yet A Woman Who Had Not Somewhere Set Up On A Pedestal In Her Brain An Ideal Of Manhood. ... He Never Is Finished Till The Brain Of His Creator Ceases To Work, Till She Has Added Her Last Touch To Him, And Has Laid Down The Burden Of Life And Gone Elsewhere, Perhaps To Some Happy Land Where Ideals Are More Frequently Realised Than Ever Happens Here.

Geology, Perhaps More Than Any Other Department Of Natural Philosophy, Is A Science Of Contemplation. It Requires No Experience Or Complicated Apparatus, No Minute Processes Upon The Unknown Processes Of Matter. It Demands Only An Enquiring Mind And Senses Alive To The Facts Almost Everywhere Presented In Nature. And As It May Be Acquired Without Much Difficulty, So It May Be Improved Without Much Painful Exertion.

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.

Mr. Dalton's Permanent Reputation Will Rest Upon His Having Discovered A Simple Principle, Universally Applicable To The Facts Of Chemistry - In Fixing The Proportions In Which Bodies Combine, And Thus Laying The Foundation For Future Labors... His Merits In This Respect Resemble Those Of Kepler In Astronomy.