Personally, People Know Themselves Very Poorly.

Science Is The Most Complete Presentment Of Facts With The Least Expenditure Of Thought

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.

In Reality, The Law Always Contains Less Than The Fact Itself, Because It Does Not Reproduce The Fact As A Whole But Only In That Aspect Of It Which Is Important For Us, The Rest Being Intentionally Or From Necessity Omitted.

My Table Is Now Brightly, Now Dimly Lighted. Its Temperature Varies. It May Receive An Ink Stain. One Of Its Legs May Be Broken. It May Be Repaired, Polished, And Replaced Part By Part. But, For Me, It Remains The Table At Which I Daily Write.

The History Of The Development Of Mechanics Is Quite Indispensable To A Full Comprehension Of The Science In Its Present Condition. It Also Affords A Simple And Instructive Example Or The Processes By Which Natural Science Generally Is Developed.