However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.