Trimming Consists Of Clipping Off Little Bits

Scientific Knowledge Scarcely Exists Amongst The Higher Classes Of Society. The Discussion In The Houses Of Lords Or Of Commons, Which Arise On The Occurrence Of Any Subjects Connected With Science, Sufficiently Prove This Fact.

Science In England Is Not A Profession: Its Cultivators Are Scarcely Recognised Even As A Class. Our Language Itself Contains No Single Term By Which Their Occupation Can Be Expressed. We Borrow A Foreign Word [savant] From Another Country Whose High Ambition It Is To Advance Science, And Whose Deeper Policy, In Accord With More Generous Feelings, Gives To The Intellectual Labourer Reward And Honour, In Return For Services Which Crown The Nation With Imperishable Renown, And Ultimately Enrich The Human Race.

Telegraphs Are Machines For Conveying Information Over Extensive Lines With Great Rapidity.

I Wish To God These Calculations Had Been Executed By Steam.

That The State Of Knowledge In Any Country Will Exert A Directive Influence On The General System Of Instruction Adopted In It, Is A Principle Too Obvious To Require Investigation.