A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.

— John Herschel A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)

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