It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that wh…

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for…

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of natu…

Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad - we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguar…

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.

'I was never bound to what was already done, was already experimented'