CHAPTER IX 



SCIENTIFIC MOTIVE 



No man ever had genius who did not aim to execute more 

 than he was able. Sir Humphry Davy. 



The pleasure of life is according to the man ivho lives it, 

 not according to the work or place. Emerson. 



It is no paradox to' say that in our most theoretical moods 

 we may be nearest to our most practical applications. 

 Prof. A. N. Whitehead. 



Scientific subjects do not progress necessarily on the lines 

 of direct usefulness. Very many applications of the 

 theories of pure mathematics have come many years, 

 sometimes centuries, after the actual discoveries them- 

 selves. Prof. A. R. Forsyth. 



In all cases, the structure, habits, instincts, and faculties 

 of living things, from the upward growth of the plumule 

 of the sprouting seed to the moral sense of man, are 

 primarily for the good of other beings than those which 

 manifest them. Prof. W. K. Brooks. 



SCIENTIFIC research may be conveniently divided into 

 two classes one in which the motive is solely the desire 

 to extend the boundaries of knowledge, while in the 

 other the special purpose is to obtain results which 

 have a direct bearing upon problems of manufacture 

 and construction. Explorers on the ship of science go 

 out to discover new lands ; and their spirit is not the 

 same as that which actuates the prospectors who follow 

 them with the intention of making the lands profitable 



