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We Have Found That Where Science Has Progressed The Farthest, The Mind Has But Regained From Nature That Which The Mind Put Into Nature.

Time Is The Supreme Law Of Nature.

Whatever Else There May Be In Our Nature, Responsibility Toward Truth Is One Of Its Attributes.

There Is No Space Without Aether, And No Aether Which Does Not Occupy Space.

Let Us Suppose That An Ichthyologist Is Exploring The Life Of The Ocean. He Casts A Net Into The Water And Brings Up A Fishy Assortment. Surveying His Catch, He Proceeds In The Usual Manner Of A Scientist To Systematise What It Reveals. He Arrives At Two Generalisations: No Sea-creature Is Less Than Two Inches Long. (2) All Sea-creatures Have Gills. These Are Both True Of His Catch, And He Assumes Tentatively That They Will Remain True However Often He Repeats It.