I Regard Consciousness As Fundamental. I Regard

The Whole Strenuous Intellectual Work Of An Industrious Research Worker Would Appear, After All, In Vain And Hopeless, If He Were Not Occasionally Through Some Striking Facts To Find That He Had, At The End Of All His Criss-cross Journeys, At Last Accomplished At Least One Step Which Was Conclusively Nearer The Truth.

It Is Not The Possession Of Truth, But The Success Which Attends The Seeking After It, That Enriches The Seeker And Brings Happiness To Him.

The Worth Of A New Idea Is Invariably Determined, Not By The Degree Of Its Intuitiveness-which Incidentally, Is To A Major Extent A Matter Of Experience And Habit-but By The Scope And Accuracy Of The Individual Laws To The Discovery Of Which It Eventually Leads.

Those [scientists] Who Dislike Entertaining Contradictory Thoughts Are Unlikely To Enrich Their Science With New Ideas.

The Pioneer Scientist Must Have "a Vivid Intuitive Imagination, For New Ideas Are Not Generated By Deduction, But By Artistically Creative Imagination."