Insight Must Precede Application.

A Scientific Truth Does Not Triumph By Convincing Its Opponents And Making Them See The Light, But Rather Because Its Opponents Eventually Die And A New Generation Grows Up That Is Familiar With It.

No Burden Is So Heavy For A Man To Bear As A Succession Of Happy Days.

When I Began My Physical Studies [in Munich In 1874] And Sought Advice From My Venerable Teacher Philipp Von Jolly...he Portrayed To Me Physics As A Highly Developed, Almost Fully Matured Science...possibly In One Or Another Nook There Would Perhaps Be A Dust Particle Or A Small Bubble To Be Examined And Classified, But The System As A Whole Stood There Fairly Secured, And Theoretical Physics Approached Visibly That Degree Of Perfection Which, For Example, Geometry Has Had Already For Centuries.

Physical Changes Take Place Continuously, While Chemical Changes Take Place Discontinuously. Physics Deals Chiefly With Continuous Varying Quantities, While Chemistry Deals Chiefly With Whole Numbers.

We Cannot Rest And Sit Down Lest We Rust And Decay. Health Is Maintained Only Through Work. And As It Is With All Life So It Is With Science. We Are Always Struggling From The Relative To The Absolute.