Never Accept A Fact Until

[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 Less Discernible Handrails To Keep Us From The Worst Morasses Of Foolishness.

What Is Possible In The Cavendish Laboratory May Not Be Too Difficult In The Sun.

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 Were Strumming On Typewriters They Might Write All The Books In The British Museum. The Chance Of Their Doing So Is Decidedly More Favourable Than The Chance Of The Molecules Returning To One Half Of The Vessel.

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 Humiliation.

Human Life Is Proverbially Uncertain; Few Things Are More Certain Than The Solvency Of A Life-insurance Company.