When The Physicists Ask Us

Mathematicians Do Not Deal In Objects, But In Relations Between Objects; Thus, They Are Free To Replace Some Objects By Others So Long As The Relations Remain Unchanged. Content To Them Is Irrelevant: They Are Interested In Form Only.

We Also Know How Cruel The Truth Often Is, And We Wonder Whether Delusion Is Not More Consoling.

Just As Houses Are Made Of Stones, So Is Science Made Of Facts.

If We Ought Not To Fear Mortal Truth, Still Less Should We Dread Scientific Truth. In The First Place It Can Not Conflict With Ethics? But If Science Is Feared, It Is Above All Because It Can Give No Happiness? Man, Then, Can Not Be Happy Through Science But Today He Can Much Less Be Happy Without It.

Most Striking At First Is The Appearance Of Sudden Illumination, A Manifest Sign Of Long Unconscious Prior Work.