Humphry Davy Quote

Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.


Consolations in Travel: Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher, Dialogue the Fifth (p. 163), Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1889


Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.

Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.

Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.

Science is in fact nothing more than the refinement of common sense making use of facts already known to acquire new facts.