Quote#Politics & Power
Science discovers these laws of power, motion and transformation;…
Quote byPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · 1819–1861
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Inaugural Address of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London (1851).
English (original)
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.
— Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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