“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.