There may be persons who, measuring the importance of the subject by the magnitude of the objects, will cast a supercilious look on this discussion; but the particle and the planet are subject to the same laws; and what is learned upon the one will be known of the other.

"On some Compounds of Fluorine" (2 January 1804) in The Annals of Philosophy, vol. 7 (January to June, 1824) p. 105. Slightly altered in William J. Rhees, James Smithson and His Bequest (1880) p. 5: "learned of the one"; also in Webster Prentiss True, The Smithsonian Institution (1929) vol. 1, p. 217: "learned of one"