When I Recall Today My Early Youth,

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.

Science Always Has Its Origin In The Adaptation Of Thought To Some Definite Field Of Experience.

I Know Of Nothing More Terrible Than The Poor Creatures Who Have Learned Too Much. Instead Of The Sound Powerful Judgement Which Would Probably Have Grown Up If They Had Learned Nothing, Their Thoughts Creep Timidly And Hypnotically After Words, Principles And Formulae, Constantly By The Same Paths. What They Have Acquired Is A Spider's Web Of Thoughts Too Weak To Furnish Sure Supports, But Complicated Enough To Provide Confusion.

The Acquisition Of The Most Elementary Truth Does Not Devolve Upon The Individual Alone: It Is Pre-effected In The Development Of The Race.

Science Itself, Therefore, May Be Regarded As A Minimal Problem, Consisting Of The Completest Possible Presentment Of Facts With The Least Possible Expenditure Of Thought.