Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.
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.
One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.