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….

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data..

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days befor….

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, ….

I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am sp….

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnit….

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though t….

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases….

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 ….

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'..

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

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers..

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism..

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God..

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance..

In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. ….

We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of….

It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a ….

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the ….

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. ….