In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

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

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and "there." To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together; it is a lot of distances interlocked.

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.