41 Quotes About English-philosopher

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

I would like to take this opportunity to record here my belief that one should take a minimum of care and preparation over first experiments.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

All of the ideas are simple and had peoples' minds been directed that way the method would have flourished perhaps a century earlier.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.