“ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings Humorist
“ The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist
“ All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. Immanuel Kant Philosopher
“ Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus. Richard Kirwan Scientist
“ There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington 1st U.S. President
“ The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice. Lydia Sigourney Poet