True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were dem…

- Cleveland Abbe

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsiv…

- Cleveland Abbe

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

- Cleveland Abbe

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and wea…

- Cleveland Abbe