There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, 'It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune'.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable chara…

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.

I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer ginger…

In all the previous cases of wholes, we have nowhere been able to argue from the parts of the whole. Compared to its parts, the whole constituted by them is so…

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in th…

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.