I Have Far More Confidence

Who Would Not Have Been Laughed At If He Had Said In 1800 That Metals Could Be Extracted From Their Ores By Electricity Or That Portraits Could Be Drawn By Chemistry.

As When On Some Secluded Branch In Forest Far And Wide Sits Perched An Owl, Who, Full Of Self-conceit And Self-created Wisdom, Explains, Comments, Condemns, Ordains And Order Things Not Understood, Yet Full Of Importance Still Holds Forth To Stocks And Stones Around - So Sits And Scribbles Mike.

The Lecturer Should Give The Audience Full Reason To Believe That All His Powers Have Been Exerted For Their Pleasure And Instruction.

Work, Finish, Publish.

There Is No More Open Door By Which You Can Enter Into The Study Of Natural Philosophy Than By Considering The Physical Phenomena Of A Candle