The word reality frightens me..

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools….

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to ma….

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature..

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out wit….

The mathematics is not there till we put it there..

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water..

Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and "there." To put the ….

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum..

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisf….

Who will observe the observers?.

What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun..

[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or les….

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space..

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, ….

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom..