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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

— James Jeans The Mysterious Universe (1930)

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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)

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)

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