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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.
The Mysterious Universe (1930)
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
The Mysterious Universe (1930)
As discontinuity marched into the world of phenomena through one door, causality walked out through another.
Physics and Philosophy (1942)
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
The Mysterious Universe (1930)
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.
The Stars in their Courses (1931)
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 Stars in their Courses (1931)
Physics and philosophy are at most a few thousand years old, but probably have lives of thousands of millions of years stretching away in front of them. They are only just beginning to get under way...
Physics and Philosophy (1942)
One must stand stiller than still.
the universe can be best pictured, ... as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what, for want of a wider word, we must describe as a mathematical thinker.
The Mysterious Universe (1930)
Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
Physics and Philosophy (1942)
Faraday, Maxwell, Larmor and a great number of others tried to explain electromagnetic action on these lines, but all attempts failed, and it began to seem impossible that any properties of ether could explain the observed pattern of events.
Physics and Philosophy (1942)