“Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.”

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The dead govern the living.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.

Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.