- If there is a Universal Mind, does it have to be sane?
- One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
- A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
- Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
- I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
- Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.
- If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.
- The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts and amusements.
- The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
- Everything that is called True must merge away indistinguishably into something called False.
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