Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.