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.

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

[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.

Space-time becomes something like the old ether ….

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.

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

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.

Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra

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