"He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry."

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It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet