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We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.


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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.



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All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.



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The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.



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The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.



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