"And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time."

"One must stand stiller than still."

"Into such a universe we have stumbled, if not exactly by mistake, at least as the result of what may properly be desc…"

"Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

"The concepts which now prove to be fundamental to our understanding of nature—a space which is finite; a space which …"

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathe…"

"Today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, tha…"

"the universe can be best pictured, ... as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what, for want of a wider word, …"

"Everything that has been said, and every conclusion that has been tentatively put forward, is quite frankly speculati…"

"For, for aught we know, or for aught that the new science can say to the contrary, the gods which play the part of fa…"