Experimenters Are The Shock Troops Of Science.

Farsighted Theologians Are Now Working To Mine The Eternal Metal From The Teachings Of Jesus And To Forge It For All Time.

When I Began My Physical Studies [in Munich In 1874] And Sought Advice From My Venerable Teacher Philipp Von Jolly...he Portrayed To Me Physics As A Highly Developed, Almost Fully Matured Science...possibly In One Or Another Nook There Would Perhaps Be A Dust Particle Or A Small Bubble To Be Examined And Classified, But The System As A Whole Stood There Fairly Secured, And Theoretical Physics Approached Visibly That Degree Of Perfection Which, For Example, Geometry Has Had Already For Centuries.

It Was Not By Accident That The Greatest Thinkers Of All Ages Were Deeply Religious Souls.

Nature Prefers The More Probable States To The Less Probable Because In Nature Processes Take Place In The Direction Of Greater Probability. Heat Goes From A Body At Higher Temperature To A Body At Lower Temperature Because The State Of Equal Temperature Distribution Is More Probable Than A State Of Unequal Temperature Distribution.

The Worth Of A New Idea Is Invariably Determined, Not By The Degree Of Its Intuitiveness-which Incidentally, Is To A Major Extent A Matter Of Experience And Habit-but By The Scope And Accuracy Of The Individual Laws To The Discovery Of Which It Eventually Leads.