Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.