Men Will Not Be Content To Manufacture

Naturalism Aimed At Giving The Primitive Wishes Full Play But Failed Because These Wishes Are Too Primitive, Too Infantile, Too Inconsistent With Themselves To Be Satisfied Even By The Greatest License.

The Only Way Of Learning The Method Of Science Is The Long And Bitter Way Of Personal Experience.

All That Glitters May Not Be Gold, But At Least It Contains Free Electrons.

The Very Bulk Of Scientific Publications Is Itself Delusive. It Is Of Very Unequal Value; A Large Proportion Of It, Possibly As Much As Three-quarters, Does Not Deserve To Be Published At All, And Is Only Published For Economic Considerations Which Have Nothing To Do With The Real Interests Of Science.

We Academic Scientists Move Within A Certain Sphere, We Can Go On Being Useless Up To A Point, In The Confidence That Sooner Or Later Some Use Will Be Found For Our Studies. The Mathematician, Of Course, Prides Himself On Being Totally Useless, But Usually Turns Out To Be The Most Useful Of The Lot. He Finds The Solution But He Is Not Interested In What The Problem Is: Sooner Or Later, Someone Will Find The Problem To Which His Solution Is The Answer.