It Would Not Become Physical Science To

Strange As It May Sound, The Power Of Mathematics Rests On Its Evasion Of All Unnecessary Thought And On Its Wonderful Saving Of Mental Operations.

Everyone Is Free To Set Up An Opinion And To Adduce Proofs In Support Of It. Whether, Though, A Scientist Shall Find It Worth His While To Enter Into Serious Investigations Of Opinions So Advanced Is A Question Which His Reason And Instinct Alone Can Decide. If These Things, In The End, Should Turn Out To Be True, I Shall Not Be Ashamed Of Being The Last To Believe Them.

Archimedes Constructing His Circle Pays With His Life For His Defective Biological Adaptation To Immediate Circumstances.

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.