Science Is The Most Complete Presentment Of

If Our Dreams Were More Regular, More Connected, More Stable, They Would Also Have More Practical Importance For Us.

I Know Of Nothing More Terrible Than The Poor Creatures Who Have Learned Too Much. Instead Of The Sound Powerful Judgement Which Would Probably Have Grown Up If They Had Learned Nothing, Their Thoughts Creep Timidly And Hypnotically After Words, Principles And Formulae, Constantly By The Same Paths. What They Have Acquired Is A Spider's Web Of Thoughts Too Weak To Furnish Sure Supports, But Complicated Enough To Provide Confusion.

Mathematics May Be Defined As The Economy Of Counting. There Is No Problem In The Whole Of Mathematics Which Cannot Be Solved By Direct Counting.

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.

Without Renouncing The Support Of Physics, It Is Possible For The Physiology Of The Senses, Not Only To Pursue Its Own Course Of Development, But Also To Afford To Physical Science Itself Powerful Assistance.