It is needless for us again to say that in science and the arts there is a dependence which is the source of their progression and importance. In a well organized country, power is always compound: Archimedes could not have made machines which terrified the Roman soldiers without the assistance of good carpenters and good workers in metal.

In: John Davy, Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Chapter III (p. 116)