There Are Very Few Persons Who Pursue

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

Every Discovery Opens A New Field For Investigation Of Facts, Shows Us The Imperfection Of Our Theories. It Has Justly Been Said, That The Greater The Circle Of Light, The Greater The Boundary Of Darkness By Which It Is Surrounded.

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.

The Beginning Of Civilisation Is The Discovery Of Some Useful Arts, By Which Men Acquire Property, Comforts, Or Luxuries. The Necessity Or Desire Of Preserving Them Leads To Laws And Social Institutions. The Discovery Of Peculiar Arts Gives Superiority To Particular Nations ... To Subjugate Other Nations, Who Learn Their Arts, And Ultimately Adopt Their Manners;- So That In Reality The Origin As Well As The Progress And Improvement Of Civil Society Is Founded In Mechanical And Chemical Inventions.

Language Is Not Only The Vehicle Of Thought, It Is A Great And Efficient Instrument In Thinking.