Events Do Not Happen; They Are Just

Falling In Love Is One Of The Activities Forbidden That Tiresome Person, The Consistently Reasonable Man.

If I Let My Fingers Wander Idly Over The Keys Of A Typewriter It Might Happen That My Screed Made An Intelligible Sentence. If An Army Of Monkeys Were Strumming On Typewriters They Might Write All The Books In The British Museum. The Chance Of Their Doing So Is Decidedly More Favourable Than The Chance Of The Molecules Returning To One Half Of The Vessel.

But It Is Necessary To Insist More Strongly Than Usual That What I Am Putting Before You Is A Model-the Bohr Model Atom-because Later I Shall Take You To A Profounder Level Of Representation In Which The Electron Instead Of Being Confined To A Particular Locality Is Distributed In A Sort Of Probability Haze All Over The Atom.

[when Thinking About The New Relativity And Quantum Theories] I Have Felt A Homesickness For The Paths Of Physical Science Where There Are Ore Or Less Discernible Handrails To Keep Us From The Worst Morasses Of Foolishness.

It Is One Thing For The Human Mind To Extract From The Phenomena Of Nature The Laws Which It Has Itself Put Into Them; It May Be A Far Harder Thing To Extract Laws Over Which It Has No Control. It Is Even Possible That Laws Which Have Not Their Origin In The Mind May Be Irrational, And We Can Never Succeed In Formulating Them.