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 2. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

 3. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

 4. All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

 5. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

 6. All things are hidden, obscure and debatable if the cause of the phenomena be unknown, but everything is clear if this cause be known.

 7. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

 8. An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

 9. Art and science have their meeting point in method.

10. Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

11. Artists treat facts as stimuli for imagination, whereas scientists use imagination to coordinate facts.

12. Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is aquickener of devotion.

13. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

14. Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly, they say they always believed it.

15. Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

16. Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

17. Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

18. Firstly, gradualness. About this most important condition of fruitful scientific work I can never speak without emotion. Gradualness, gradualness, gradualness.

19. General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room.

20. Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

21. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

22. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute.

23. He who proves things by experience increases his knowledge; he who believes blindly increases his errors.

24. Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

25. How can finite grasp infinity?

26. It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

27. Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

28. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

29. Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the leastwork.

30. Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.

31. Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.

32. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fool sand the beacons of wise men.

33. Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

34. Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

35. Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

36. My kingdom is as wide as the world, and my desire has no limit. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, and without God. Men call me Science.

37. Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

38. Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

39. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

40. Philosophy is the true mother of science.

41. Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.

42. Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.

43. Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

44. Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

45. Reason is progressive; instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

46. Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

47. Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

48. Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

49. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

50. Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

51. Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

52. Science deals only with phenomena, and is but charlatanism when it babbles about the powers or causes that produce these, or what the things are, in essence, of which it gives us merely the names.

53. Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing, and what is not knowable.

54. Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

55. Science has its nights and its dawns, because it gives the intellectual world a life which has its regulated movements and its progressive phases. It is with Truths, as with the luminous rays: nothing of what is concealed is lost; but also, nothing of what is discovered is absolutely new.

56. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man'supper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

57. Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

58. Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

59. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

60. Science is organized knowledge.

61. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

62. Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

63. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

64. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

65. Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

66. Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

67. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

68. Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

69. Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

70. Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some one talent. Yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely, for all science is one.

71. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

72. The cause is hidden but the effect is evident.

73. The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

74. The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

75. The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

76. The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

77. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. The reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

78. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

79. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

80. The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts Is merely science for the gaining of a living; But the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, Is not that the true science?

81. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

82. The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.

83. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact.

84. There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any questions, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

85. True science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant.

86. Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

87. We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

88. We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

89. When we return to the root, we gain the meaning; When we pursue external objects, we lose the reason. The moment we are enlightened within, We go beyond the voidness of a world confronting us.

90. Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.