"The only way of discovering the extent of the laws of nature is to try to transcend them."

"The peculiar function of the scientific man is to make discoveries, not to talk about them."

"But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and…"

"In the very beginning of science, the parsons, who managed things then, Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness o' men; Till Commerce arose and at length some men of exceptional …"

"The true beginning of all knowledge is the discovery of something we do not know."