"In science by a fiction as remarkable as any to be found in law, what once been published even though it be in the Ru…"

"Without encroaching upon grounds appertaining to the theologian and the philosopher, the domain of natural sciences i…"

"The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best …"

"There are some great men of science whose charm consists in having said the first word on a subject, in having introd…"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"It is the characteristic of error to be feeble, fluctuating, and anxious: it is the property of truth to be constant …"

"...they make no use of tables; but only of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of certain numbers…"

"[negative numbers] ‘…darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their …"

"The , which measures the , together with the total energy density of the Universe, sets the size of the observable Un…"