A Drop Of Water Is As Powerful

We Live In The Hope And Faith That, By The Advance Of Molecular Physics, We Shall By-and-by Be Able To See Our Way As Clearly From The Constituents Of Water To The Properties Of Water, As We Are Now Able To Deduce The Operations Of A Watch From The Form Of Its Parts And The Manner In Which They Are Put Together.

Not Far From The Invention Of Fire We Must Rank The Invention Of Doubt.

A Man Has No Reason To Be Ashamed Of Having An Ape For His Grandfather. If There Were An Ancestor Whom I Should Feel Shame In Recalling It Would Rather Be A Man Who Plunges Into Scientific Questions With Which He Has No Real Acquaintance, Only To Obscure Them By An Aimless Rhetoric.

Though Under-instruction Is A Bad Thing, It Is Not Impossible That Over-instruction May Be Worse.

The Great Tragedy Of Science - The Slaying Of A Beautiful Hypothesis By An Ugly Fact.