But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any ….

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability..

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and ar….

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... Th….

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?.

Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when w….

Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and….

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the ….

And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, ….

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his ….

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science….

In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it lea….

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathem….

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science t….

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express..

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilate….

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter..

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, t….

Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light p….

We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law o….

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science..