We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument.

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 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.

But If The Two Countries Or Governments Are At War, The Men Of Science Are Not. That Would, Indeed Be A Civil War Of The Worst Description: We Should Rather, Through The Instrumentality Of The Men Of Science Soften The Asperities Of National Hostility. Davy's Remarks To Thomas Poole On Accepting Napoleon's Prize For The Best Experiment On Galvanism.

Cavendish Was A Great Man With Extraordinary Singularities-his Voice Was Squeaking His Manner Nervous He Was Afraid Of Strangers & Seemed When Embarrassed To Articulate With Difficulty-he Wore The Costume Of Our Grandfathers. Was Enormously Rich But Made No Use Of His Wealth... He Cavendish Lived Latterly The Life Of A Solitary, Came To The Club Dinner & To The Royal Society: But Received Nobody At His Home. He Was Acute Sagacious & Profound & I Think The Most Accomplished British Philosopher Of His Time.