Events Do Not Happen; They

Philosophically, The Notion Of A Beginning Of The Present Order Of Nature Is Repugnant To Me ... I Should Like To Find A Genuine Loophole.

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 Is Known Exists Abundantly In All Matter; We Sometimes Dream That Man Will One Day Learn How To Release It And Use It For His Service. The Store Is Well Nigh Inexhaustible, If Only It Could Be Tapped. There Is Sufficient In The Sun To Maintain Its Output Of Heat For 15 Billion Years.

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 Conclusion Rather Crudely-space Is Not A Lot Of Points Close Together; It Is A Lot Of Distances Interlocked.

In The World Of Physics We Watch A Shadowgraph Performance Of The Drama Of Familiar Life. The Shadow Of My Elbow Rests On The Shadow Table As The Shadow Ink Flows Over The Shadow Paper. It Is All Symbolic, And As A Symbol The Physicist Leaves It. ... The Frank Realisation That Physical Science Is Concerned With A World Of Shadows Is One Of The Most Significant Of Recent Advances.

We Have Found That Where Science Has Progressed The Farthest, The Mind Has But Regained From Nature That Which The Mind Put Into Nature.