“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?” WorldWaySelfHomeNaturalWorstProduceInstinctAffectionSeekingMannersOutcomesSelf RespectPolitenessSuppressionNatural Instinct Author:Humphry Davy
“James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.” NaturalGeniusUnionsProfoundPhilosopherPracticalsInventionCharacteristicsApplicationPeculiarDistinguishedChemistJames Watt Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I
“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.” MindMayMatterPhilosophyFactsScienceProcessNaturalAliveMinutesDemandDifficultyPainfulComplicatedSensesContemplationDepartmentGeologyExertionNatural Philosophy 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
“We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.” ReasonPhilosophyNaturalPerceiveNatural Philosophy Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.) Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)
