But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take yo….

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys wer….

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company..

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'..

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached th….

A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it i….

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory..

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself..

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't..

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star..

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force..

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory..

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist..

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 humilia….

Time is the supreme Law of nature..

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Wh….

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to wh….

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, o….

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too..

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness..

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory..