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There Is Only One Law Of Nature-the Second Law Of Thermodynamics-which Recognises A Distinction Between Past And Future More Profound Than The Difference Of Plus And Minus. It Stands Aloof From All The Rest. ... It Opens Up A New Province Of Knowledge, Namely, The Study Of Organisation; And It Is In Connection With Organisation That A Direction Of Time-flow And A Distinction Between Doing And Undoing Appears For The First Time.

Proof Is An Idol Before Which The Mathematician Tortures Himself.

In Any Attempt To Bridge The Domains Of Experience Belonging To The Spiritual And Physical Sides Of Nature, Time Occupies The Key Position.

Oh Leave The Wise Our Measures To Collate. One Thing At Least Is Certain, Light Has Weight. One Thing Is Certain And The Rest Debate. Light Rays, When Near The Sun, Do Not Go Straight.

We Have Found That Where Science Has Progressed The Farthest, The Mind Has But Regained From Nature That Which The Mind Put Into Nature.