In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of t…

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able…

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which …

The pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task. The rew…

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon the practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical…

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.