Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Quote

Science is too lofty for measurement by the yard of utility; - too inestimable for expression by a money standard. These grovelling ideas of the objects of science, which constantly jar it in its intercourse with the world, ought to find no response in the breast of any devotee who would draw inspiration from its shrine.

Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, (Volume 1), Part I, The Study of Abstract Science (p. 27)