"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability." ― Thomas Huxley Topic(s): Nature Tags: always, imagination, restrains, scientific More From Thomas Huxley "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us." "The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me." "My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations." More In Nature "Teach a child to play solitaire, and she’ll be able to entertain herself when there’s no one around. Teach her tennis, and she’ll know what to do when she’s on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."― Joyce Maynard "If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned."― Mike Huckabee "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"― Herman Melville