The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly ….

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discuss….

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too ob….

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to supp….

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in del….

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other….

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions..

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is direc….

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the wor….

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote fr….

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machi….

If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself w….

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their office….

There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it i….

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain qu….

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in thi….

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with scien….

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity..

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision..

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and a….

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making poss….