Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

John Tyndall

English Physicist

"Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries."

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

"Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence."

"The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact."

"The formation of right habits is essential to your permanent security. They diminish your chance of falling when assaulted, and they augment your chance of recovery when overthrown."

"Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation."

"The wind is a musical instrument with a certain range of tones, beyond which in both directions we have an infinite silence."