Never Accept A Fact Until

Science Is One Thing, Wisdom Is Another. Science Is An Edged Tool, With Which Men Play Like Children, And Cut Their Own Fingers. If You Look At The Results Which Science Has Brought In Its Train, You Will Find Them To Consist Almost Wholly In Elements Of Mischief. See How Much Belongs To The Word "explosion" Alone, Of Which The Ancients Knew Nothing.

If Someone Points Out To You That Your Pet Theory Of The Universe Is In Disagreement With Maxwell's Equations - Then So Much The Worse For Maxwell's Equations. If It Is Found To Be Contradicted By Observation - Well, These Experimentalists Do Bungle Things Sometimes. But If Your Theory Is Found To Be Against The Second Law Of Thermodynamics I Can Give You No Hope; There Is Nothing For It But To Collapse In Deepest Humiliation.

The Electron, As It Leaves The Atom, Crystallises Out Of Schrodinger's Mist Like A Genie Emerging From His Bottle.

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, Or The Minutest Works With The Physicist. ... [k]nowledge Of The Stars Leads Through The Atom; And Important Knowledge Of The Atom Has Been Reached Through The Stars.

For The Truth Of The Conclusions Of Physical Science, Observation Is The Supreme Court Of Appeal.