Humphry Davy

The progress of science is a series of successful experiments.

The greatest discoveries have been made by accident.

Nothing is so dangerous as a little knowledge.

The true spirit of chemical philosophy is to be found in the constant endeavour to discover new facts, and to apply them to the explanation of natural phenomena.

The most important object of chemical philosophy is to ascertain the laws by which the various forms of matter are produced, and the changes which they undergo.

The true method of philosophical inquiry is to proceed from facts to principles, and from principles to facts.

My most important discovery was Michael Faraday.

Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no new worlds to conquer; that there are no new stars to discover.

I have been accused of being a poet, and I confess that I have often indulged in the poetic license of imagination.

The most important part of my work is to make people think.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

I have learned more from my failures than from my successes.

Science is a severe mistress; she requires undivided attention.

The first step in science is to wonder at everything.

I am not a great man, but I have done great things.

I have often been surprised by the ignorance of the learned.

The true alchemists are the chemists.

My life has been a series of experiments.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.