Quotes by : Humphry Davy

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness,....

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are....

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon....

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause....

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