Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

By always thinking unto them. ... I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they wou…

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. We say that a sentence is factually signif…

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in th…

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.