"· ... Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyse the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls in…"

"Let us now tum to the second matter in dispute between us [about the rejection of philosophy in virtually all senses]…"

"I take my stand before you as a reactionary, a survivor, who is still an enthusiast for the old and the classical as …"

"Even as a musician can recognize his Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert after hearing the first few bars, so can a mathem…"

"I propose to answer two questions:— (1) Is the Theory of Gases a true physical theory as valuable as any other physic…"

"The first question I answer in the affirmative, but the second belongs not so much to ordinary physics (let us call i…"

"For a long time the celebrated theory of Boscovich was the ideal of physicists. According to his theory, bodies as we…"

"If this theory were to hold good for all phenomena, we should be still a long way off what Faust's famous famulus [Wa…"

"When Lord Salisbury says that nature is a mystery, he means... that this simple conception of Boscovich is refuted al…"

"In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory."