The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
Alfred North Whitehead