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

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

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

The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.