What parts of the interior or the atmosphere give rise to the various phenomena, or indeed, if these regions have any parts at all, are questions whi… - Herbert Dingle

It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.

A science in its infancy is the least satisfactory, and, at the same time, the most profitable theme for a general description.

It is the event that is the immediate entity of perception; Nature is the sum-total of events, and every instrument of thought that our minds employ can be traced back to its ultimate origin in events.