To Travel Hopefully Is Better Than To

The Universe Can Best Be Pictured As Consisting Of Pure Thought, The Thought Of What For Want Of A Better Word We Must Describe As A Mathematical Thinker.

In Real Science A Hypothesis Can Never Be Proved True...a Science Which Confines Itself To Correlating Phenomena Can Never Learn Anything About The Reality Underlying The Phenomena, While A Science Which Goes Further Than This And Introduces Hypotheses About Reality, Can Never Acquire Certain Knowledge Of A Positive Kind About Reality; In Whatever Way We Proceed, This Is Forever Denied Us.

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 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.