What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.