The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.