“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
Nature“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
Knowledge“The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.”
Freedom“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
Freedom“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
Nature“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
Work“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
Fear“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
History“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Great“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
Wisdom“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
Fear“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
Business“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”
Happiness“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
Art“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
Nature“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
Truth