"The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of scienc…"

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

"I have been trying to invent a demon who could violate the second law of thermodynamics, but he keeps getting drunk on entropy."

"Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be etern…"

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