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In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.

Imagination Should Give Wings To Our Thoughts But We Always Need Decisive Experimental Proof, And When The Moment Comes To Draw Conclusions And To Interpret The Gathered Observations, Imagination Must Be Checked And Documented By The Factual Results Of The Experiment.

There Does Not Exist A Category Of Science To Which One Can Give The Name Applied Science. There Are Sciences And The Applications Of Science, Bound Together As The Fruit Of The Tree Which Bears It.

In Matters Of Observation Chance Favors Only The Prepared Mind. (not Literal Translation) - Dan's Les Champs De Observation Le Hasard Ne Favorise Que Les Esprits Prepares.

When One Works And Imagines And Dreams Of Nothing Else Than The Search For Answers That God Has Posed, It Is Difficult To Be So Still.