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Top 25 Humphry Davy Quotes (2025 Update)

Humphry Davy Quote: “Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

1. “Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.”

2. “Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”

3. “Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.”

4. “Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”

5. “I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown...”

6. “Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown...”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.”

7. “I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.”

8. “There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.”

9. “Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”

10. “Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being, – its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.”

11. “The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being, – its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.”

12. “The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.”

13. “When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius – the union of them for practical application.”

14. “James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius – the union of them for practical application.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown.”

15. “The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.”

16. “The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom’s lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.”

17. “By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom’s lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

18. “We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”

19. “What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”

20. “The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.”

21. “Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “You are now in a state in which a fly would be whose microscopic eye was changed to one similar to that of man: and you are wholly unable to associate what you see with your former knowledge.”

22. “You are now in a state in which a fly would be whose microscopic eye was changed to one similar to that of man: and you are wholly unable to associate what you see with your former knowledge.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.”

23. “Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman’s social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.”

24. “It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman’s social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”

25. “The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.”

26. “There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.”

27. “This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.”

28. “The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.”

— Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy Quote: “Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.”

29. “Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.”

— Humphry Davy

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