Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moment….

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics..

Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature throug….

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them..

The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind ….

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive..

In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the r….

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as someth….

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evide….

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means..

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars..

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thi….

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself..

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train..

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't….

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few p….

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive..

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties..

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-cen….

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, ar….

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own….