...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we feel as when we are in an ancient armoury where the weapons are of gigantic size; and as we look at them we marvel what manner of man he was who could use as a weapon what we can scarcely lift as a burden.

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences