Whenever A Man Can Get Hold Of

Remember That Accumulated Knowledge, Like Accumulated Capital, Increases At Compound Interest: But It Differs From The Accumulation Of Capital In This; That The Increase Of Knowledge Produces A More Rapid Rate Of Progress, Whilst The Accumulation Of Capital Leads To A Lower Rate Of Interest. Capital Thus Checks It Own Accumulation: Knowledge Thus Accelerates Its Own Advance. Each Generation, Therefore, To Deserve Comparison With Its Predecessor, Is Bound To Add Much More Largely To The Common Stock Than That Which It Immediately Succeeds.

I Have No Desire To Write My Own Biography, As Long As I Have Strength And Means To Do Better Work.

The Triumph Of The Industrial Arts Will Advance The Cause Of Civilization More Rapidly Than Its Warmest Advocates Could Have Hoped, And Contribute To The Permanent Prosperity And Strength Of The Country Far More Than The Most Splendid Victories Of Successful War.

In Mathematical Science, More Than In All Others, It Happens That Truths Which Are At One Period The Most Abstract, And Apparently The Most Remote From All Useful Application, Become In The Next Age The Bases Of Profound Physical Inquiries, And In The Succeeding One, Perhaps, By Proper Simplification And Reduction To Tables, Furnish Their Ready And Daily Aid To The Artist And The Sailor.

[in Response To Alfred Tennyson's Poem "vision Of Sin," Which Included The Line "every Moment Dies A Man, Every Moment One Is Born."] If This Were True, The Population Of The World Would Be At A Stand-still. In Truth, The Rate Of Birth Is Slightly In Excess Of Death. I Would Suggest That The Next Edition Of Your Poem Should Read: "every Moment Dies A Man, Every Moment 1 [and] 1/16 Is Born." Strictly Speaking, The Actual Figure Is So Long I Cannot Get It Into A Line, But I Believe The Figure 1 [and] 1/16 Will Be Sufficiently Accurate For Poetry.