Ideas Are Forces; Our Acceptance Of One

He Who Is Ignorant Of Motion, Says Aristotle , Is Necessarily Ignorant Of All Natural Things. ...not Only Was He Entirely In The Dark Respecting The Laws, He Was Completely Wrong In His Conception Of The Nature Of Motion. ...he Thought That Every Body In Motion Naturally Tends To Rest.

The Separation Of Science From Knowledge Was Effected Step By Step As The Subjective Method Was Replaced By The Objective Method: I.e., When In Each Inquiry The Phenomena Of External Nature Ceased To Be Interpreted On Premisses Suggested By The Analogies Of Human Nature.

Imagination Is Not The Exclusive Appanage Of Artists, But Belongs In Varying Degrees To All Men.

The Moral Nature Of Man Is More Sacred In My Eyes Than His Intellectual Nature. I Know They Cannot Be Divorced - That Without Intelligence We Should Be Brutes - But It Is The Tendency Of Our Gaping, Wondering Dispositions To Give Pre-eminence To Those Faculties Which Most Astonish Us. Strength Of Character Seldom, If Ever, Astonishes; Goodness, Lovingness, And Quiet Self-sacrifice, Are Worth All The Talents In The World.

The Real People Of Genius Were Resolute Workers Not Idle Dreamers.