Quotes on Inquirers

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.