The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '