I deal with the view now tentatively held that the whole material universe of stars and galaxies of stars is dispersing, the galaxies scattering apart so as to occupy an ever-increasing volume. But I deal with it not as an end in itself. To take an analogy from detective fiction, it is the clue not the criminal.

I am a detective in search of a criminal―the cosmical constant. … I think I have enough evidence to justify an arrest.

… a rather inaccessible journal.

Astronomical measurements are, without exception, measurements of phenomena occurring in a terrestrial observatory or station; it is only by theory that they are translated into knowledge of a universe outside.

Aether is everywhere.

But what, therefore, am I? A thing that thinks?

What possible justification could there be for the choice of a particular boundary condition―aside from the fact that it works, i.e. that it leads to what we observe?

Cosmologists, even more than laboratory physicists, must find the usual interpretive rules of quantum mechanics a bit frustrating ….

But in 1952 I saw the impossible done. It was in papers by David Bohm.