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Truth is a whole, and the truth of physics will be found to link on and to be but part of that larger truth which is the nature and the character of the universe.

— Jan Smuts (1931)



We seem to be making for a real clash between the relativity and the quantum concepts ….

— Jan Smuts (1931)



[I]t is only to be expected that the recent revolutionary advances of physics are bound to have the most profound effect on our world-view and on our philosophical outlook.

— Jan Smuts (1931)



Space-time becomes something like the old ether ….

— Jan Smuts (1931)



It is easy to understand how cubes can entirely fill space with no voids, but the packing problem is still unsolved for the simple tetrahedron.

— Peter Palffy-Muhoray (2009)



…thoroughly conscious ignorance that is the prelude to every real advance in knowledge.

— James Maxwell (1877)



The whole matter of the world must have been present at the beginning, but the story it has to tell may be written step by step.

— Georges Lemaître (1931)



Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra

— Amir Haji-Akbari (2009)



Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me.

— Arthur Eddington (1931)