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There Is Only One Law Of Nature-the Second Law Of Thermodynamics-which Recognises A Distinction Between Past And Future More Profound Than The Difference Of Plus And Minus. It Stands Aloof From All The Rest. ... It Opens Up A New Province Of Knowledge, Namely, The Study Of Organisation; And It Is In Connection With Organisation That A Direction Of Time-flow And A Distinction Between Doing And Undoing Appears For The First Time.

The Understanding Between A Non-technical Writer And His Reader Is That He Shall Talk More Or Less Like A Human Being And Not Like An Act Of Parliament. I Take It That The Aim Of Such Books Must Be To Convey Exact Thought In Inexact Language... He Can Never Succeed Without The Co-operation Of The Reader.

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

An Electron Is No More (and No Less) Hypothetical Than A Star. Nowadays We Count Electrons One By One In A Geiger Counter, As We Count The Stars One By One On A Photographic Plate.

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.