Science for its progression requires patronage, - but it must be a patronage bestowed, a patronage received, with dignity. It must be preserved independent. It can bear no fetters, not even fetters of gold, and least of all those fetters in which ignorance or selfishness may attempt to shackle it.

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