The Greater The Man, The More He

The Beauty Of Life Is, Therefore, Geometrical Beauty Of A Type That Plato Would Have Much Appreciated.

The Question Of The Origin Of Life Is Essentially Speculative. We Have To Construct, By Straightforward Thinking On The Basis Of Very Few Factual Observations, A Plausible And Self-consistent Picture Of A Process Which Must Have Occurred Before Any Of The Forms Which Are Known To Us In The Fossil Record Could Have Existed.

It Is Characteristic Of Science That The Full Explanations Are Often Seized In Their Essence By The Percipient Scientist Long In Advance Of Any Possible Proof.

[in Eighteenth-century Britain] Engineers For The Most Began As Simple Workmen, Skilful And Ambitious But Usually Illiterate And Self-taught. They Were Either Millwrights Like Bramah, Mechanics Like Murdoch And George Stephenson, Or Smiths Like Newcomen And Maudslay.

In England, More Than In Any Other Country, Science Is Felt Rather Than Thought. ... A Defect Of The English Is Their Almost Complete Lack Of Systematic Thinking. Science To Them Consists Of A Number Of Successful Raids Into The Unknown.