The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. Humphrey Davy
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Humphrey Davy
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. Humphrey Davy
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Humphrey Davy