All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.