All Matter Originates And Exists Only By

Nature Prefers The More Probable States To The Less Probable Because In Nature Processes Take Place In The Direction Of Greater Probability. Heat Goes From A Body At Higher Temperature To A Body At Lower Temperature Because The State Of Equal Temperature Distribution Is More Probable Than A State Of Unequal Temperature Distribution.

Those [scientists] Who Dislike Entertaining Contradictory Thoughts Are Unlikely To Enrich Their Science With New Ideas.

When I Began My Physical Studies [in Munich In 1874] And Sought Advice From My Venerable Teacher Philipp Von Jolly...he Portrayed To Me Physics As A Highly Developed, Almost Fully Matured Science...possibly In One Or Another Nook There Would Perhaps Be A Dust Particle Or A Small Bubble To Be Examined And Classified, But The System As A Whole Stood There Fairly Secured, And Theoretical Physics Approached Visibly That Degree Of Perfection Which, For Example, Geometry Has Had Already For Centuries.

Science Advances One Funeral At A Time.

There Can Never Be Any Real Opposition Between Religion And Science; For The One Is The Complement Of The Other. Every Serious And Reflective Person Realizes, I Think, That The Religious Element In His Nature Must Be Recognized And Cultivated If All The Powers Of The Human Soul Are To Act Together In Perfect Balance And Harmony. And Indeed It Was Not By Accident That The Greatest Thinkers Of All Ages Were Deeply Religious Souls