The Quest Of The Absolute Leads Into

The Understanding Between A Non-technical Writer And His Reader Is That He Shall Talk More Or Less Like A Human Being And Not Like An Act Of Parliament. I Take It That The Aim Of Such Books Must Be To Convey Exact Thought In Inexact Language... He Can Never Succeed Without The Co-operation Of The Reader.

It Is Impossible To Trap Modern Physics Into Predicting Anything With Perfect Determinism Because It Deals With Probabilities From The Outset.

Life Would Be Stunted And Narrow If We Could Feel No Significance In The World Around Us Beyond That Which Can Be Weighed And Measured With The Tools Of The Physicist Or Described By The Metrical Symbols Of The Mathematician.

Science Is One Thing, Wisdom Is Another. Science Is An Edged Tool, With Which Men Play Like Children, And Cut Their Own Fingers.

It Is Also A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In The Observational Results That Are Put Forward Until They Are Confirmed By Theory.