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We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not From What We Hope, Or Even Expect, But From What We Perceive.

The Most Important Of My Discoveries Have Been Suggested To Me By Failures.

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.

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

The Whole Language Of Nature Informs Us, That In Animated Beings There Is Something Above Our Powers Of Investigation; Something Which Employs, Combines, And Arranges The Gross Elements Of Matter - A Spark Of Celestial Fire, By Which Life Is Kindled And Preserved, And Which, If Even The Instruments It Employs Are Indestructible In Their Essence, Must Itself, Of Necessity, Be Immortal.