Humphry Davy

I have no doubt that the future will be more glorious than the past.

Science is a voyage of discovery into the unknown.

I have always found that the unexpected is the most interesting.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

I have often thought that the greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do.

The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the wisdom of the Creator.

I have no other guide than the light of nature.

Science is the poetry of reality.

I have always been more interested in what I don't know than in what I do know.

The greatest discovery is to find oneself.

I have often found that the simplest explanation is the best.

I have never been afraid to make mistakes, for I have learned more from them than from my successes.

I have often found that the most difficult problems have the simplest solutions.

I have always believed that the pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all human endeavors.

The most important of all sciences is that which teaches us to be good and to do good.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Man is a part of nature, and his life is a part of the universal life.

There is no death, but only a change of form.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.