Humphry Davy Quote

It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge and its object truth and utility.


Consolations in Travel; or The Last Days of a Philosopher - Dialogue V (p. 251), John Murray. 1830


It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge and its object truth and utility.

It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge and its object truth and utility.

It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge and its object truth and utility.

It may be said of modern chemistry, that its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge and its object truth and utility.