Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1878);
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1887);
- John Scott Medal (1907);
- CB (1907);
- KCB (1911);
- President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1924–1929);
- Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1929);
- President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1932);
- The James Alfred Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers has been awarded for specially meritorious contributions to the science of engineering in the field of research since 1938.
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
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Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
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Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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