John Tyndall quotes

" Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. " # Experts # Life and Living # Music

" The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. " # Music # Silence # Mind

" The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact. " # Bachelor # Life and Living # Love

" It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste. " # Taste # Coward and Cowardice # Courage

" Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God. " # Failure # Truth # Science and Scientists

" Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence. " # Religion # Superstition # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. " # Science and Scientists # Religion # Love