Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Quote

Man gets so accustomed to luxurious applications of science, that he often forgets the searcher of abstract truth whose discoveries led to them.


Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, (Volume 1), Part I, he Study of Abstract Science (p. 41)


Man gets so accustomed to luxurious applications of science, that he often forgets the searcher of abstract truth whose discoveries led to them.

Man gets so accustomed to luxurious applications of science, that he often forgets the searcher of abstract truth whose discoveries led to them.

Man gets so accustomed to luxurious applications of science, that he often forgets the searcher of abstract truth whose discoveries led to them.

Man gets so accustomed to luxurious applications of science, that he often forgets the searcher of abstract truth whose discoveries led to them.