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.

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

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

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

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

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.