Lectures Which Really Teach Will

Occasionally And Frequently The Exercise Of The Judgment Ought To End In Absolute Reservation. It May Be Very Distasteful, And Great Fatigue, To Suspend A Conclusion; But As We Are Not Infallible, So We Ought To Be Cautious; We Shall Eventually Find Our Advantage, For The Man Who Rests In His Position Is Not So Far From Right As He Who, Proceeding In A Wrong Direction, Is Ever Increasing His Distance.

I Think Chemistry Is Being Frittered Away By The Hairsplitting Of The Organic Chemists; We Have New Compounds Discovered, Which Scarcely Differ From The Known Ones And When Discovered Are Valueless-very Illustrations Perhaps Of Their Refinements In Analysis, But Very Little Aiding The Progress Of True Science.

If The Term Education May Be Understood In So Large A Sense As To Include All That Belongs To The Improvement Of The Mind, Either By The Acquisition Of The Knowledge Of Others Or By Increase Of It Through Its Own Exertions, We Learn By Them What Is The Kind Of Education Science Offers To Man. It Teaches Us To Be Neglectful Of Nothing - Not To Despise The Small Beginnings, For They Precede Of Necessity All Great Things In The Knowledge Of Science, Either Pure Or Applied.

What A Weak, Credulous, Incredulous, Unbelieving, Superstitious, Bold, Frightened, What A Ridiculous World Ours Is, As Far As Concerns The Mind Of Man. How Full Of Inconsistencies, Contradictions And Absurdities It Is. I Declare That Taking The Average Of Many Minds That Have Recently Come Before Me ... I Should Prefer The Obedience, Affections And Instinct Of A Dog Before It.

I Have Long Held An Opinion, Almost Amounting To Conviction, In Common I Believe With Many Other Lovers Of Natural Knowledge, That The Various Forms Under Which The Forces Of Matter Are Made Manifest Have One Common Origin; Or, In Other Words, Are So Directly Related And Mutually Dependent, That They Are Convertible, As It Were, One Into Another, And Possess Equivalents Of Power In Their Action.