Books Must Follow Sciences, And Not Sciences

It Is Idle To Expect Any Great Advancement In Science From The Superinducing And Engrafting Of New Things Upon Old. We Must Begin Anew From The Very Foundations, Unless We Would Revolve For Ever In A Circle With Mean And Contemptible Progress.

The Voice Of The People Has About It Something Divine: For How Otherwise Can So Many Heads Agree Together As One?

I Work For Posterity, These Things Requiring Ages For Their Accomplishment.

Men On Their Side Must Force Themselves For A While To Lay Their Notions By And Begin To Familiarize Themselves With Facts.

The Errors Of Young Men Are The Ruin Of Business, But The Errors Of Aged Men Amount To This, That More Might Have Been Done, Or Sooner.