Ambition And Suspicion Always Go Together.

The More Experiences And Experiments Accumulate In The Exploration Of Nature, The More Precarious The Theories Become. But It Is Not Always Good To Discard Them Immediately On This Account. For Every Hypothesis Which Once Was Sound Was Useful For Thinking Of Previous Phenomena In The Proper Interrelations And For Keeping Them In Context. We Ought To Set Down Contradictory Experiences Separately, Until Enough Have Accumulated To Make Building A New Structure Worthwhile.

If Countries Were Named After The Words You First Hear When You Go There, England Would Have To Be Called Damn It.

The Course Of The Seasons Is A Piece Of Clockwork, With A Cuckoo To Call When It Is Spring.

The Sure Conviction That We Could If We Wanted To Is The Reason So Many Good Minds Are Idle.

With Most Men, Unbelief In One Thing Springs From Blind Belief In Another.