“ In biology it has come to pass that he who takes in vain the name of Darwin and scoffs at the doctrine of evolution is held to be without the pale; he is no longer to be reasoned with as a mere erring brother, he is to be treated with silent pity as one beyond hope. ”

“ As Whewell well remarks, these writers "seem to have been alarmed at the moral that their readers might draw from the tale of a 'quest of knowledge,' in which the hero, though fantastical and self-willed, and violating in his conduct, as they conceived, all right rule and sound philosophy, is rewarded by the most signal triumphs." ”

“ Carpenter’s proposed dichotomy of Crookes and psuedo-Crookes—the one an able fellow of the Royal Society, the other an inconsequent and credulous paradoxer. The subtlety of nature is greater than the subtlety of the classifier. Hard-and-fast divisions are not found in rerum naturâ; they only exist in books and book-philosophers. A wide toleration for all a man’s opinions, a hearty readiness to welcome all that he can do of honest and worthy work, these are things which ought to characterize the followers of science. We must be content with less from members of Parliament. ”

“ Even in this Christian land it is said that some who assent with their lips to all the creeds and all the articles, to whom no test is distasteful, do yet in their lives exhibit small regard for the things they have professed. ”