Humphry Davy Quote

There is nothing more difficult than a good definition, for it is scarcely possible to express, in a few words, the abstracted view of an infinite variety of facts.


Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher - Dialogue V (p. 247), J. Murray. 1830


There is nothing more difficult than a good definition, for it is scarcely possible to express, in a few words, the abstracted view of an infinite...

There is nothing more difficult than a good definition, for it is scarcely possible to express, in a few words, the abstracted view of an infinite...

There is nothing more difficult than a good definition, for it is scarcely possible to express, in a few words, the abstracted view of an infinite...

There is nothing more difficult than a good definition, for it is scarcely possible to express, in a few words, the abstracted view of an infinite...