Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.