The Belief In A Single Truth Is

If Alpha [the Fine-structure Constant] Were Bigger Than It Really Is, We Should Not Be Able To Distinguish Matter From Ether [the Vacuum, Nothingness], And Our Task To Disentangle The Natural Laws Would Be Hopelessly Difficult. The Fact However That Alpha Has Just Its Value 1/137 Is Certainly No Chance But Itself A Law Of Nature. It Is Clear That The Explanation Of This Number Must Be The Central Problem Of Natural Philosophy.

If God Has Made The World A Perfect Mechanism, He Has At Least Conceded So Much To Our Imperfect Intellect That In Order To Predict Little Parts Of It, We Need Not Solve Innumerable Differential Equations, But Can Use Dice With Fair Success.

Intellect Distinguishes Between The Possible And The Impossible; Reason Distinguishes Between The Sensible And The Senseless. Even The Possible Can Be Senseless.

Science Is Not Formal Logic-it Needs The Free Play Of The Mind In As Great A Degree As Any Other Creative Art. It Is True That This Is A Gift Which Can Hardly Be Taught, But Its Growth Can Be Encouraged In Those Who Already Posses It.

The Problem Of Physics Is How The Actual Phenomena, As Observed With The Help Of Our Sense Organs Aided By Instruments, Can Be Reduced To Simple Notions Which Are Suited For Precise Measurement And Used Of The Formulation Of Quantitative Laws. Experiment And Theory In Physics