Probably The Simplest Hypothesis... Is That There

An Ocean Traveler Has Even More Vividly The Impression That The Ocean Is Made Of Waves Than That It Is Made Of Water.

The Electron, As It Leaves The Atom, Crystallises Out Of Schrodinger's Mist Like A Genie Emerging From His Bottle.

The Mathematics Is Not There Till We Put It There.

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.

Proof Is An Idol Before Which The Mathematician Tortures Himself.