Humphry Davy Quote

In all cases in science, it is our business to analyse every principle, and to ascertain to what expressions of facts it relates, or to what simpler laws it may be referred. It is our duty to separate propositions from human passions, and to reason on them as mere representations of things.

In: John Davy (ed.), Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy (Volume 1)