Bad Times Have A Scientific Value These Are

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”