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Profound Minds Are The Most Likely To Think Lightly Of The Resources Of Human Reason, And It Is The Superficial Thinker Who Is Generally Strongest In Every Kind Of Unbelief.

James Watt Was Equally Distinguished As A Natural Philosopher And Chemist; His Inventions Demonstrate His Profound Knowledge Of Those Sciences, And That Peculiar Characteristic Of Genius - The Union Of Them For Practical Application.

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument. The Native Intellectual Powers Of Men In Different Times Are Not So Much The Causes Of The Different Success Of Their Labours, As The Peculiar Nature Of The Means And Artificial Resources In Their Possession.

Life Is Made Up, Not Of Great Sacrifices Or Duties, But Of Little Things, In Which Smiles And Kindness, And Small Obligations Given Habitually, Are What Preserve The Heart And Secure Comfort.

We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not From What We Hope, Or Even Expect, But From What We Perceive.