It is not the neutrality of the judge that makes justice, but his passionate will to do right. And the same is true of the scientist: it is not his indifference to truth but his passionate love of it that makes him a scientist.
It is not the neutrality of the judge that makes justice, but his passionate will to discover what is true. A judge who merely balances probabilities has abdicated his function.
The aim of science is not to open a door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
To be sheltered from the winds of doctrine is to be kept from contact with reality. The man who is protected against every draught of opinion is kept from the real world; but then, what is the real world?
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to wade into its waters.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. The poet who walks by moonlight knows that the moon is the sun and that the darkness is a brilliant day.
The chief danger of our age is that all mankind should be sunk in a depression of the same kind, all held in the same mold by the oppressiveness of a system of thought in which there is neither criticism of life nor xiety about truth.
The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
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