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Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.