William Robert Grove

“For my own part, I must say that I have no patience with the hypothesis of abstract forces.”

“Science should have neither desires nor prejudices. Truth is its only aim.”

“It is a great mistake to suppose that the bare statement of a fact is any explanation of it whatever.”

“Causation is the will, creation the act of God.”

“Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Motion, and Chemical Affinity, are all convertible material affections.”

“The great problem that is looming in the future of the civilized world is, whence is the power to be derived which is to produce our heat, light, and motion?”