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?
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
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 sometim...
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.