"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 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…"

"Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence."

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