Humphry Davy

1778–1829 · British chemist

Topics: learning, creativity

• Every new discovery may be considered as a new species of manufacture, awakening moral industry and sagacity, and employing, as it were, new capital of mind.

  — Humphry Davy

• The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown; and in philosophy, the sentiment of the Macedonian hero can never apply, — there are always new worlds to conquer.

  — Humphry Davy