“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.” LittlesTwoDifferentMightMovingScienceSocialFeltCommonRaceMoralGroupsSocietyOceanIntellectualScientistSouthClimateCommunicateIncomePsychologicalEarningIdenticalChelsea Author:C.P. Snow
“Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?” LittlesSaidBookScienceKnowledgePhilosopherMathematicianMore KnowledgeGreat Philosophers Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume
“There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.” LittlesArtTwoEarthSciencePassionHeavenHellArt IsCalamityAvenuesArt And ScienceGodlike Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.” MenLittlesTwoWholeScienceLyingUniversePathWiseSeeingFoolLowsErrorsFormerWheelsLatterRegionsLanesFootstepsLoftyProvincesRutsTwo Wheels Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.” WorldShouldYearsLittlesWould BeScienceCoursesStudyFourShould HaveMathematicsUniversityPhysicsSatisfiedGreekLatinChemistryNew WorldFour YearsGeologyWisconsinBotany Book:Essential Muir Source: Essential Muir