“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence
“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.