Who Will Observe The Observers?

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.

Man Is Slightly Nearer To The Atom Than To The Star. ... From His Central Position Man Can Survey The Grandest Works Of Nature With The Astronomer, Or The Minutest Works With The Physicist. ... [k]nowledge Of The Stars Leads Through The Atom; And Important Knowledge Of The Atom Has Been Reached Through The Stars.

Asked In 1919 Whether It Was True That Only Three People In The World Understood The Theory Of General Relativity, [eddington] Allegedly Replied: "who's The Third?"

The Universe Will Finally Become A Ball Of Radiation, Becoming More And More Rarified And Passing Into Longer And Longer Wave-lengths. The Longest Waves Of Radiation Are Hertzian Waves Of The Kind Used In Broadcasting. About Every 1500 Million Years This Ball Of Radio Waves Will Double In Diameter; And It Will Go On Expanding In Geometrical Progression For Ever. Perhaps Then I May Describe The End Of The Physical World As-one Stupendous Broadcast.

If Someone Points Out To You That Your Pet Theory Of The Universe Is In Disagreement With Maxwell's Equations - Then So Much The Worse For Maxwell's Equations. If It Is Found To Be Contradicted By Observation - Well, These Experimentalists Do Bungle Things Sometimes. But If Your Theory Is Found To Be Against The Second Law Of Thermodynamics I Can Give You No Hope; There Is Nothing For It But To Collapse In Deepest Humiliation.