We Used To Think That If We

Probably The Simplest Hypothesis... Is That There May Be A Slow Process Of Annihilation Of Matter.

There Once Was A Brainy Baboon, Who Always Breathed Down A Bassoon, For He Said, It Appears That In Billions Of Years I Shall Certainly Hit On A Tune.

I Ask You To Look Both Ways. For The Road To A Knowledge Of The Stars Leads Through The Atom; And Important Knowledge Of The Atom Has Been Reached Through The Stars.

On One Occasion When [william] Smart Found Him Engrossed With His Fundamental Theory, He Asked Eddington How Many People He Thought Would Understand What He Was Writing-after A Pause Came The Reply, 'perhaps Seven.'

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.