The Ultimate Truth Is Penultimately A Falsehood.

If There Is A Lesson In Our Story It Is That The Manipulation, According To Strictly Self-consistent Rules, Of A Set Of Symbols Representing One Single Aspect Of The Phenomena May Produce Correct, Verifiable Predictions, And Yet Completely Ignore All Other Aspects Whose Ensemble Constitutes Reality.

Some Of The Greatest Discoveries...consist Mainly In The Clearing Away Of Psychological Roadblocks Which Obstruct The Approach To Reality; Which Is Why,post Factum They Appear So Obvious.

There Is Only One Prospect Worse Than Being Chained To An Intolerable Existence: The Nightmare Of A Botched Attempt To End It.

Somebody Once Asked Niels Bohr Why He Had A Horseshoe Hanging Above The Front Door Of His House. Surely You, A World Famous Physicist, Can't Really Believe That Hanging A Horseshoe Above Your Door Brings You Luck? Of Course Not, Bohr Replied, But I Have Been Reliably Informed That It Will Bring Me Luck Whether I Believe In It Or Not.

Space-ships And Time Machines Are No Escape From The Human Condition. Let Othello Subject Desdemona To A Lie-detector Test; His Jealousy Will Still Blind Him To The Evidence. Let Oedipus Triumph Over Gravity; He Won't Triumph Over His Fate.