Excerpt from The Constitution of Matter
The lectures which form the body of this book were delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in the month of February, 1913, for The Norman W. Harris Lectures of this year. The fact that they were actual lectures accounts for the form in which the text is given; and the further fact that the audience for whom they were prepared was composed, for a large part, of people unfamiliar with both the facts and the methods of science must be accepted as the justification for the treatment of the subject.
Few tasks are as difficult as that of conveying to a general audience a true impression of the results of scientific inquiry. One must avoid the Scylla of too great certainty and also the Charybdis of too great uncertainty.
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