Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart. —The Evermen Cycles,
There’s more to the truth than just the facts.
Choose your ground well. War is a game of geography.
Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
A thief believes everybody steals.
An uneasy peace was better than no peace at all.
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.
It is better to negotiate standing on two feet compared to when a foot is on your chest.
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. —Memoirs of Emperor Xenovere I, page 286,
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
