The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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…

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from …

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 …

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.