Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action….

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists..

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and i….

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought..

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges,….

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is r….

The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in ….

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces..

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications..

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole ….

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts..

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravi….

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain..

The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natur….

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophic….

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas..

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cann….

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to….

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with ….

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensa….

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes..