Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

The Admiralty will continue to follow the progress of science at a respectful distance, always arriving at an appreciation of each successive invention just soon enough to find that it is obsolete, and never yielding their adhesion to anything new until the time has come to defend it against the claims of something newer.


The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 15 (J. W. Parker and Son, 1863), p. 294


The Admiralty will continue to follow the progress of science at a respectful distance, always arriving at an appreciation of each successive...

The Admiralty will continue to follow the progress of science at a respectful distance, always arriving at an appreciation of each successive...

The Admiralty will continue to follow the progress of science at a respectful distance, always arriving at an appreciation of each successive...

The Admiralty will continue to follow the progress of science at a respectful distance, always arriving at an appreciation of each successive...