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

"The molecules of a gas are like angry bees in a jar, but far more mathematical."

"It is an unscientific habit to give names to things before we know what they are."

"I am not a great mathematician, but I can do a little."

"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…"