A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics.

It Is In The World Of Ideas And In The Relation Of His Brain To The Universe Itself That The Superiority Of Man Lies. The Rise Of Man May Justly Be Described As An Adventure In Ideas.

It Is A Mistake To Imagine That Potentially Great Men Are Rare. It Is The Conditions That Permit The Promise Of Greatness To Be Fulfilled That Are Rare. What Is So Difficult To Achieve Is The Cultural Background That Permits Potential Greatness To Be Converted Into Actual Greatness.

Earlier Theories ... Were Based On The Hypothesis That All The Matter In The Universe Was Created In One Big Bang At A Particular Time In The Remote Past. [coining The "big Bang" Expression.]

We Are Inescapably The Result Of A Long Heritage Of Learning, Adaptation, Mutation And Evolution, The Product Of A History Which Predates Our Birth As A Biological Species And Stretches Back Over Many Thousand Millennia... Going Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With Our Fellow Primates; And Going Still Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With All Other Living Creatures And Plants Down To The Simplest Microbe. The Further Back We Go, The Greater The Difference From External Appearances And Behavior Patterns Which We Observe Today.

Outstanding Examples Of Genius - A Mozart, A Shakespeare, Or A Carl Friedrich Gauss - Are Markers On The Path Along Which Our Species Appears Destined To Tread.