Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply given, elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. – Paul Davies