Where The Frontier Of Science Once Was

It Is Too Bad If You Have To Do Everything Upon Reflection And Can't Do Anything From Early Habit.

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

Some People Feel With Their Heads And Think With Their Hearts.

Good Taste Is Either That Which Agrees With My Taste Or That Which Subjects Itself To The Rule Of Reason. From This We Can See How Useful It Is To Employ Reason In Seeking Out The Laws Of Taste.

Cultivate That Kind Of Knowledge Which Enables Us To Discover For Ourselves In Case Of Need That Which Others Have To Read Or Be Told Of.