The Bravery of the Scientific Mind

Every great discoverer has been met with the same incredulity — the sure brand of a generation of fools. When great facts are laid before you, you have not the intuition, the imagination which would…

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

To a man of philosophic temperament like myself the blood-tick, with its lancet-like proboscis and its distending stomach, is as beautiful a work of Nature as the peacock or, for that matter, the…

The unknown is up against us on every side. Outside the narrow lines of the rivers what does anyone know? Who will say what is possible in such a country? Why should old man Challenger not be right?

But chances are all around you. It is the mark of the kind of man I mean that he makes his own chances. You can't hold him back. I've never met him, and yet I seem to know him so well. There are…

It is not worth it. Truth is truth, and the noise of a number of foolish young men — and, I fear I must add, of their equally foolish seniors — cannot affect the matter.