I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.