False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes, and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nea…

Through the means just specified, aided perhaps by others as yet undiscovered, man has been raised to his present state. But since he attained to the rank of m…

There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from any common progenitor of mankind, yet as Westropp and Nilsso…

The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be reg…

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in nu…

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.