The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 35), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the, Principles of Morals, Section 1