Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

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

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

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

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.