If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.