Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Quote

It is no mean task for intellect to leap over the barriers of ignorance; it is even more easy to go onward ill new and untrodden paths.


Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, (Volume 1), Part I, The Study of Abstract Science (p. 28)


It is no mean task for intellect to leap over the barriers of ignorance; it is even more easy to go onward ill new and untrodden paths.

It is no mean task for intellect to leap over the barriers of ignorance; it is even more easy to go onward ill new and untrodden paths.

It is no mean task for intellect to leap over the barriers of ignorance; it is even more easy to go onward ill new and untrodden paths.

It is no mean task for intellect to leap over the barriers of ignorance; it is even more easy to go onward ill new and untrodden paths.