"It is a perfect pleasure to think of anything that is not connected with the examination."

"The only way to avoid error is to have no ideas at all."

"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…"

"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 …"

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