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

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

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

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

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.