Humphry Davy Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  Humphry Davy

  Philosophy, Science, Mind

• The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.

  Humphry Davy

  Country, Philosophy, Science

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.358

• We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

  Humphry Davy

  Philosophy, Reason, Natural

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

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