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

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

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

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

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.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

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.