It Is By Logic We Prove. It

All That We Can Hope From These Inspirations, Which Are The Fruits Of Unconscious Work, Is To Obtain Points Of Departure For Such Calculations. As For The Calculations Themselves, They Must Be Made In The Second Period Of Conscious Work Which Follows The Inspiration, And In Which The Results Of The Inspiration Are Verified And The Consequences Deduced.‎

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

Chance ... Must Be Something More Than The Name We Give To Our Ignorance.

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.

Thought Is Only A Flash Between Two Long Nights, But This Flash Is Everything.