2.—“_Science calm moves_ ...”
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter
to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake,
and must keep the conscience alive.”—George Eliot (“Middlemarch,” Chap.
LXXIII.)
3.—“_Research and reason_ ...”
As indicated by Professor Oliver T. Lodge, “It is but a platitude to say
that our clear and conscious aim should always be truth, and that no
lower or meaner standard should ever be allowed to obtrude itself before
us. Our ancestors fought hard and suffered much for the privilege of
free and open inquiry, for the right of conducting investigation
untrammelled by prejudice and foregone conclusions, and they were ready
to examine into any phenomenon which presented itself.... Fear of
avowing interest or of examining into unorthodox facts is, I venture to
say, not in accordance with the highest traditions of the scientific
attitude.”—(Address as President of the Mathematical and Physical
Section of the British Association, 1891.)
See also the words of Richard Jefferies:—“Research proceeds upon the
same old lines and runs in the ancient grooves.... But there should be
no limit placed on the mind.... Most injurious of all is the continuous
circling on the same path, and it is from this that I wish to free my
mind.”—(“The Story of My Heart,” Chap. X.)
5.—“... _part revealed_.”
“We are still the early settlers in a beautiful world, whose
capabilities, imperfectly known as yet, wait until higher developments
of man can understand them fully, and apply the result to the general
good.”—Professor T. Rupert Jones (Address as President of the Geological
Section of the British Association, 1891).