When You Can Measure What You Are

Scientific Wealth Tends To Accumulate According To The Law Of Compound Interest. Every Addition To Knowledge Of The Properties Of Matter Supplies The Physical Scientist With New Instrumental Means For Discovering And Interpreting Phenomena Of Nature, Which In Their Turn Afford Foundations Of Fresh Generalisations, Bringing Gains Of Permanent Value Into The Great Storehouse Of Natural Philosophy.

I Believe That The More Thoroughly Science Is Studied, The Further Does It Take Us From Anything Comparable To Atheism.

There Is Nothing In Science Which Teaches The Origin Of Anything At All.

Accurate And Minute Measurement Seems To The Non-scientific Imagination, A Less Lofty And Dignified Work Than Looking For Something New. But Nearly All The Grandest Discoveries Of Science Have Been But The Rewards Of Accurate Measurement And Patient Long-continued Labour In The Minute Sifting Of Numerical Results.

In Science There Is Only Physics; All The Rest Is Stamp Collecting.