Accomplished Quote by Humphry Davy

“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent- he was…

— Bill Bryson

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that…

— C.P. Snow

“Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is - which was the only way…

— Herman Melville

“He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the…

— Anne Mallory

“His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and…

— David Edmonds

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his…

— Alfred Kazin

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather