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...such remote scientific knowledge, as the special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...first in America to see the importance of the prosecution of science. In my last interview with Mr. Coolidge he expressed the hope that the laboratory would not be given over to mere elementary teaching, and he said, "If you succeed in turning out a Michael Faraday I shall be well satisfied...
...membership in many of the leading scientific societies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States. He was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society of London in 1910 and the Willard Gibbs Medal by the American chemical Society in 1912. The London Medical Society awarded him the Faraday medal in 1911, and he was probably the first American to be offered a permanent chair in a German university, an offer which he declined...
...which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay; for there is no satisfaction so great as the realization that one has advanced the progress of mankind...
Students who are interested in learning of the work which Professor Richards has been doing, may find an account of it in the issue of "Science' for October 1911. That paper contains the Faraday Lecture which he delivered before the Royal Institution of London last summer. The title of his lecture was "Fundamental Problems of the Elements," and in it he summed up and emphasized the general bearing of chemical progress for the last twenty years...