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The word reality frightens me.
Who will observe the observers?
Time is the supreme Law of nature.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.