Gideon Mantell Quote

Whereby the useful is indissolubly linked with the true, the exalted, and the beautiful, science thus followed for its own sake will pour forth abundant overflowing streams to enrich and fertilize that industrial prosperity, which is the conquest of the intelligence of Man over matter.

The Wonders of Geology; or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological, Phenomena, Address to the Reader (p. xiv)