"I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper."

"There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium."

"The progress of science is a series of corrections."

"I have always been convinced that the universe is governed by laws that are discoverable through observation and experiment."

"I think that scientific predictions, if they are to be truly scientific, must be capable of being disproven."