The Acquisition Of The Most Elementary Truth

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.

Science Always Has Its Origin In The Adaptation Of Thought To Some Definite Field Of Experience.

The Mathematician Who Pursues His Studies Without Clear Views Of This Matter, Must Often Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That His Paper And Pencil Surpass Him In Intelligence.

Similarly, Many A Young Man, Hearing For The First Time Of The Refraction Of Stellar Light, Has Thought That Doubt Was Cast On The Whole Of Astronomy, Whereas Nothing Is Required But An Easily Effected And Unimportant Correction To Put Everything Right Again.

Physics Is Experience, Arranged In Economical Order.