Boundaries Quote by Humphry Davy

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually,…

— Humphry Davy

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of…

— Humphry Davy

This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer,…

— Humphry Davy

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are…

— Humphry Davy

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in…

— Humphry Davy

The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of…

— Humphry Davy

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by…

— Humphry Davy

The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its…

— Humphry Davy

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic…

— Humphry Davy

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

— Humphry Davy

Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the…

— Humphry Davy