Science Should Leave Off Making Pronouncements: The

In This Model, The Sun Is A Very Tiny Speck Of Dust Indeed-a Speck Less Than A Three-thousandth Of An Inch In Diameter ... Think Of The Sun As Something Less Than A Speck Of Dust In A Vast City, Of The Earth As Less Than A Millionth Part Of Such A Speck Of Dust, And We Have Perhaps As Vivid A Picture As The Mind Can Really Grasp Of The Relation Of Our Home In Space To The Rest Of The Universe.

The Universe Can Best Be Pictured As Consisting Of Pure Thought, The Thought Of What For Want Of A Better Word We Must Describe As A Mathematical Thinker.

...nature Seems Very Conversant With The Rules Of Pure Mathematics, As Our Own Mathematicians Have Formulated Them In Their Studies, Out Of Their Own Inner Consciousness And Without Drawing To Any Appreciable Extent On Their Experience Of The Outer World.

In Real Science A Hypothesis Can Never Be Proved True...a Science Which Confines Itself To Correlating Phenomena Can Never Learn Anything About The Reality Underlying The Phenomena, While A Science Which Goes Further Than This And Introduces Hypotheses About Reality, Can Never Acquire Certain Knowledge Of A Positive Kind About Reality; In Whatever Way We Proceed, This Is Forever Denied Us.

The Human Race, Whose Intelligence Dates Back Only A Single Tick Of The Astronomical Clock, Could Hardly Hope To Understand So Soon What It All Means.