“In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.”

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Science does not permit exceptions.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

Science rejects the indeterminate.

Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.

Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That’s what its about at the end of the day.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.

Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I’ve gotten older, I think there’s a lot more relation to math.

God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it… If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one’s own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.