The Idea Of A Universal Mind Or

Probably The Simplest Hypothesis... Is That There May Be A Slow Process Of Annihilation Of Matter.

Whatever Else There May Be In Our Nature, Responsibility Toward Truth Is One Of Its Attributes.

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.

Observation And Theory Get On Best When They Are Mixed Together, Both Helping One Another In The Pursuit Of Truth. It Is A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In A Theory Until It Has Been Confirmed By Observation. I Hope I Shall Not Shock The Experimental Physicists Too Much If I Add That It Is Also A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In The Observational Results That Are Put Forward Until They Have Been Confirmed By Theory.

What We Makes Of The World Must Be Largely Dependent On The Sense-organs That We Happen To Possess. How The World Must Have Changed Since The Man Came To Rely On His Eyes Rather Than His Nose.