The Universe Can Best Be

...nature Seems Very Conversant With The Rules Of Pure Mathematics, As Our Own Mathematicians Have Formulated Them In Their Studies, Out Of Their Own Inner Consciousness And Without Drawing To Any Appreciable Extent On Their Experience Of The Outer World.

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 Paces Ahead. Occasionally The Fog Lifts, An Eminence Is Gained, And A Wider Stretch Of Territory Can Be Surveyed-sometimes With Startling Results. A Whole Science May Then Seem To Undergo A Kaleidoscopic Rearrangement, Fragments Of Knowledge Sometimes Being Found To Fit Together In A Hitherto Unsuspected Manner. Sometimes The Shock Of Readjustment May Spread To Other Sciences; Sometimes It May Divert The Whole Current Of Human Thought.

Life Exists In The Universe Only Because The Carbon Atom Possesses Certain Exceptional Properties.

The Essential Fact Is That All The Pictures Which Science Now Draws Of Nature, And Which Alone Seem Capable Of According With Observational Facts, Are Mathematical Pictures.

...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.