Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. — George Iles Copy Share Image
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest… — George Iles Copy Share Image
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. — George Iles Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles Copy Share Image
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere. — George Iles Copy Share Image
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato. — George Iles Copy Share Image