Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.