The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.