John Herschel Quote

If science may be vilified by representing it as opposed to religion, or trammeled by mistaken notions of the danger of free enquiry, there is yet another mode by which it may be degraded from its native dignity, and that is by placing it in the light of a mere appendage to and caterer for our pampered appetites.

A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Part I, Chapter I, Section 7 (p. 10), Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green., 1831