There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

... and what good is a baby?

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.