"Francis Bacon had essayed to sum up the past of physical science, and to indicate the path which it must follow if it…"

"Descartes was an eminent mathematician, and it would seem that the bent of his mind led him to overestimate the value…"

"The progress of physical science has been effected neither by Baconians nor by Cartesians, as such but by men like Ga…"

"That growth of knowledge beyond imaginable utilitarian ends, which is the condition precedent of its practical utilit…"

"The bare enumeration of the names of the men who were the great lights of science in the latter part of the eighteent…"

"The progress of physical science, since the revival of learning, is largely due to the fact that men have gradually l…"

"The history of physical science teaches (and we cannot too carefully take the lesson heart) that the practical advant…"

"In considering the causes which considering hindered the progress of physical knowledge in the schools of Athens and …"

"It is a curious speculation to think what would have become of modern physical science if glass and alcohol had not b…"

"The founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one…"