We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.