It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him,… — James Smithson Copy Share Image
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals… — James Smithson Copy Share Image
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
