The Theory Of Relativity Confers An Absolute

The Theory Of Relativity Confers An Absolute Meaning On A Magnitude Which In Classical Theory Has Only A Relative Significance: The Velocity Of Light. The Velocity Of Light Is To The Theory Of Relativity As The Elementary Quantum Of Action Is To The Quantum Theory: It Is Its Absolute Core.

The Pioneer Scientist Must Have "a Vivid Intuitive Imagination, For New Ideas Are Not Generated By Deduction, But By Artistically Creative Imagination."

The Whole Strenuous Intellectual Work Of An Industrious Research Worker Would Appear, After All, In Vain And Hopeless, If He Were Not Occasionally Through Some Striking Facts To Find That He Had, At The End Of All His Criss-cross Journeys, At Last Accomplished At Least One Step Which Was Conclusively Nearer The Truth.

Physical Changes Take Place Continuously, While Chemical Changes Take Place Discontinuously. Physics Deals Chiefly With Continuous Varying Quantities, While Chemistry Deals Chiefly With Whole Numbers.

Science Progresses Not By Convincing The Adherents Of Old Theories That They Are Wrong, But By Allowing Enough Time To Pass So That A New Generation Can Arise Unencumbered By The Old Errors.