Sir Humphrey Quotes
- For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
- Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry… — E. C. Bentley
- This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
- All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir… — Robert Anton Wilson
- The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of… — George Stephenson