If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very diff…

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

'Explanations are never the most interesting part of science.'

It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the mo…