The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.