"To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the u…"

"Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries."

"The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of ill…"

"A point highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view. He gave an account of his discovery of M…"

"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."

"The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both direction…"

"The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts i…"

"It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste."

"Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch t…"

"History is the record of a vast experimental investigation—of a search by man after the best conditions of existence."