Hypotheses Are What We Lack

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.

All The Scientist Creates In A Fact Is The Language In Which He Enunciates It. If He Predicts A Fact, He Will Employ This Language, And For All Those Who Can Speak And Understand It, His Prediction Is Free From Ambiguity. Moreover, This Prediction Once Made, It Evidently Does Not Depend Upon Him Whether It Is Fulfilled Or Not.

It Is A Misfortune For A Science To Be Born Too Late When The Means Of Observation Have Become Too Perfect. That Is What Is Happening At This Moment With Respect To Physical Chemistry; The Founders Are Hampered In Their General Grasp By Third And Fourth Decimal Places.

Les Faits Ne Parlent Pas. Facts Do Not Speak.

We Also Know How Cruel The Truth Often Is, And We Wonder Whether Delusion Is Not More Consoling.