Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes …

Science discovers these laws of power, motion and transformation; industry applies them to raw matter which the earth yields us in abundance, but which becomes valuable only by knowledge.

the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal

thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning... The knowledge acquired becomes at once the property of all of the community at large

the realization of the unity of mankind. ...The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are rapidly vanishing before the achievements of modern invention

we are living at a period of most wonderful transition which tends rapidly to