We Have Found That Where

Falling In Love Is One Of The Activities Forbidden That Tiresome Person, The Consistently Reasonable Man.

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.

On One Occasion When [william] Smart Found Him Engrossed With His Fundamental Theory, He Asked Eddington How Many People He Thought Would Understand What He Was Writing-after A Pause Came The Reply, 'perhaps Seven.'

The Mathematics Is Not There Till We Put It There.

When An Investigator Has Developed A Formula Which Gives A Complete Representation Of The Phenomena Within A Certain Range, He May Be Prone To Satisfaction. Would It Not Be Wiser If He Should Say 'foiled Again! I Can Find Out No More About Nature Along This Line.'