An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

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.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place.