Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
The word reality frightens me.
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one. ' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and. '
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.