“To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.” WorldHas BeensEnoughCharacterScienceSocialPathSourceHigherAmbitionDiscoveryDirectConnectedFlightHeightDistinctionHonourPossessedEaglesReptilesAscendingAdvances In Science Author:Humphry Davy
“Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.” DifferentFactsUseBodyOrderNaturalViewsMinutesEventsCircumstancesConcernedRelationPropertyConnectedCriticalImprovementExperimentsAgentsGlobesEmployedExaltedAnalogiesResemblanceNatural Science Author:Humphry Davy
“The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.” ImportantCountryPhilosophyScienceAdvantageProsperityConnectedExperimentsPeculiarConquestProgressionPhysical Science Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.) Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)
“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.” MatterStatesWholeLightFormScienceOrderChangeAnimalInfluenceSolutionsDestructionHarmonyConstantAssumingSeriesConnectedSubstanceHeatDecayElectricityConservationElectricalFluctuationConsolidationRenovationElectrical Power Author:Humphry Davy
