"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sh…"

"It is not the business of philosophy to account for the truth of things by hypotheses, but to deduce them from phenomena."

"I consider my experiments as a kind of play."

"Nothing can be divided into fewer parts than it hath."