Science and Reason

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

The atoms of Democritus

She knows her way around the family of radioactive substances better than I know the way around my own family.

And now I see with eye serene

Ptolemy made a universe, which lasted 1400 years. Newton also made a universe, which

Political Economy and Social Economy are amusing intellectual games; but Vital Economy is the Philosopher Stone.

The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary