The Mathematics Is Not There Till We

You Cannot Disturb The Tiniest Petal Of A Flower Without The Troubling Of A Distant Star.

There Was A Time When We Wanted To Be Told What An Electron Is. The Question Was Never Answered. No Familiar Conceptions Can Be Woven Around The Electron; It Belongs To The Waiting List.

Observation And Theory Get On Best When They Are Mixed Together, Both Helping One Another In The Pursuit Of Truth. It Is A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In A Theory Until It Has Been Confirmed By Observation. I Hope I Shall Not Shock The Experimental Physicists Too Much If I Add That It Is Also A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In The Observational Results That Are Put Forward Until They Have Been Confirmed By Theory.

There Is No Space Without Aether, And No Aether Which Does Not Occupy Space.

Science Is One Thing, Wisdom Is Another. Science Is An Edged Tool, With Which Men Play Like Children, And Cut Their Own Fingers. If You Look At The Results Which Science Has Brought In Its Train, You Will Find Them To Consist Almost Wholly In Elements Of Mischief. See How Much Belongs To The Word "explosion" Alone, Of Which The Ancients Knew Nothing.