Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We ar….

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make ….

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down..

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right ….

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other k….

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses..

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hy….

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are….

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full an….

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself..

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided….

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly..

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so ….

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once move….

You can have it all, but not all at once..

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new expe….

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding..