[W]e seek a theory which describes all that actually happens, and nothing that does not, a theory in which everything which is not forbidden is compulsory.

Philosophy still acts like a stranger toward the gigantic complex of natural science, even to the point of rejecting it.

The treatment of the problem of time as parallel to that of space has been detrimental.

… physics makes statements about reality …

[T]hree-dimensionality would thus be recognized as a logical consequence of certain fundamental properties of matter, which in turn would have to be accepted as ultimate facts.

P]hilosophy and science have become estranged ….

It is the characteristic of three-dimensionality that it and only it leads to continuous causal laws for physical reality.

The classical philosophers had a close connection with the science of their times….

[T]he universe according to Newton is finite, although it may possess an infinitely great total mass.