"His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than o…"

"In all these papers we see a love of honest work, an aversion to shams, a caution in the enunciation of conclusions, …"

"The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a …"

"We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matt…"

"The whole is simpler than its parts."

"Anyone having these desires will make these researches."

"I wish to know systems."

"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane."

"If I have had any success in mathematical physics, it is, I think, because I have been able to dodge mathematical dif…"

"One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in t…"