In Real Science A Hypothesis Can Never

...to Many It Is Not Knowledge But The Quest For Knowledge That Gives Greater Interest To Thought-to Travel Hopefully Is Better Than To Arrive.

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.

Life Exists In The Universe Only Because The Carbon Atom Possesses Certain Exceptional Properties.

Sciences Usually Advances By A Succession Of Small Steps, Through A Fog In Which Even The Most Keen-sighted Explorer Can Seldom See More Than A Few Paces Ahead. Occasionally The Fog Lifts, An Eminence Is Gained, And A Wider Stretch Of Territory Can Be Surveyed-sometimes With Startling Results. A Whole Science May Then Seem To Undergo A Kaleidoscopic Rearrangement, Fragments Of Knowledge Sometimes Being Found To Fit Together In A Hitherto Unsuspected Manner. Sometimes The Shock Of Readjustment May Spread To Other Sciences; Sometimes It May Divert The Whole Current Of Human Thought.

Science Should Leave Off Making Pronouncements: The River Of Knowledge Has Too Often Turned Back On Itself.