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Quotation from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
“I hope you will now see that the perfection of a process—that is, its utility—is the better point of beauty about it. It is not the best looking thing, but the best acting thing, which is the most advantageous to us.”
The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes))
After showing that ornamented fluted candles burn badly because they cannot form a regular cup of melted fuel.
Citation: "I hope you will now see that the perfection of a process—that is, its utility—is the better point of beauty about it. It is not the best looking thing, but the best acting thing, which is the most advantageous to us." — Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes)). (id faraday-chemical-history-of-a-candle-q2)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
