“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.” — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“[Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and qualify his… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.” — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would seek him among the band of… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. — John Tyndall Copy Share Image