2 APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS 



No delusion is greater than the notion that 

 method and industry can make up for lack of mother- 

 wit, either in science or in practical life. 



VI 



Nothing great in science has ever been done by 

 men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine 

 afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. 



VII 



In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every 

 other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom 

 in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or 

 two of them. 



VIII 



Nothing can be more incorrect than the assump- 

 tion one sometimes meets with, that physics has one 

 method, chemistry another, and biology a third. 



IX 



Anyone who is practically acquainted with scienti- 

 fic work is aware that those w^ho refuse to go beyond 

 fact, rare'y get as far as fact ; and anyone who has 

 studied the history of science knows that almost 

 every great step therein has been made by the 

 "anticipation of Nature." 



There are three great products of our time. . . . One 

 of these is that doctrine concerning the constitution of 



