"The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine."

"At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' her…"

"In the very beginning of science, the parsons, who managed things then, Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness o' men; Till Commerce arose and at length some men of exceptional …"

"The peculiar function of the scientific man is to make discoveries, not to talk about them."

"The greatest discoveries of science have always been the discovery of our ignorance."