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We Often Think That When We Have Completed Our Study Of One We Know All About Two, Because 'two' Is 'one And One.' We Forget That We Still Have To Make A Study Of 'and.'

For The Truth Of The Conclusions Of Physical Science, Observation Is The Supreme Court Of Appeal.

An Electron Is No More (and No Less) Hypothetical Than A Star. Nowadays We Count Electrons One By One In A Geiger Counter, As We Count The Stars One By One On A Photographic Plate.

If I Let My Fingers Wander Idly Over The Keys Of A Typewriter It Might Happen That My Screed Made An Intelligible Sentence. If An Army Of Monkeys Were Strumming On Typewriters They Might Write All The Books In The British Museum. The Chance Of Their Doing So Is Decidedly More Favourable Than The Chance Of The Molecules Returning To One Half Of The Vessel.

Our Ultimate Analysis Of Space Leads Us Not To A "here" And A "there," But To An Extension Such As That Which Relates "here" And "there." To Put The Conclusion Rather Crudely-space Is Not A Lot Of Points Close Together; It Is A Lot Of Distances Interlocked.