“John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained his livelihood I believe by teaching the mathematics to young people. He pursued science always with mathematical views. He seemed little attentive to the labours of men except when they countenanced or confirmed his own ideas... He was a very disinterested man, seemed to have no ambition beyond that of being thought a good Philosopher. He was a very coarse Experimenter & almost always found the results he required.—Memory & observation were subordinate qualities in his mind. He followed with ardour analogies & inductions & however his claims to originality may admit of question I have no doubt that he was one of the most original philosophers of his time & one of the most ingenious.” PhilosophyScienceTeacherMathematicianIngeniousDaltonJohn Dalton Author:Humphry Davy
“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
“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.)
“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.)
