Strange As It May Sound, The Power

Everyone Is Free To Set Up An Opinion And To Adduce Proofs In Support Of It. Whether, Though, A Scientist Shall Find It Worth His While To Enter Into Serious Investigations Of Opinions So Advanced Is A Question Which His Reason And Instinct Alone Can Decide. If These Things, In The End, Should Turn Out To Be True, I Shall Not Be Ashamed Of Being The Last To Believe Them.

Man Is Pre-eminently Endowed With The Power Of Voluntarily And Consciously Determining His Own Point Of View.

I Once Knew An Otherwise Excellent Teacher Who Compelled His Students To Perform All Their Demonstrations With Incorrect Figures, On The Theory That It Was The Logical Connection Of The Concepts, Not The Figure, That Was Essential.

My Table Is Now Brightly, Now Dimly Lighted. Its Temperature Varies. It May Receive An Ink Stain. One Of Its Legs May Be Broken. It May Be Repaired, Polished, And Replaced Part By Part. But, For Me, It Remains The Table At Which I Daily Write.

To Us Investigators, The Concept 'soul' Is Irrelevant And A Matter For Laughter. But Matter Is An Abstraction Of Exactly The Same Kind, Just As Good And Just As Bad As It Is. We Know As Much About The Soul As We Do Of Matter.