All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
