The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.

If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.