Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.

If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.