Science Is What We Have Learned About How To Keep

“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

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

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”

“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.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.”