There Once Was A Brainy Baboon, Who

An Electron Is No More (and No Less) Hypothetical Than A Star. Nowadays We Count Electrons One By One In A Geiger Counter, As We Count The Stars One By One On A Photographic Plate.

Oh Leave The Wise Our Measures To Collate. One Thing At Least Is Certain, Light Has Weight. One Thing Is Certain And The Rest Debate. Light Rays, When Near The Sun, Do Not Go Straight.

You Cannot Disturb The Tiniest Petal Of A Flower Without The Troubling Of A Distant Star.

Observation And Theory Get On Best When They Are Mixed Together, Both Helping One Another In The Pursuit Of Truth. It Is A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In A Theory Until It Has Been Confirmed By Observation. I Hope I Shall Not Shock The Experimental Physicists Too Much If I Add That It Is Also A Good Rule Not To Put Overmuch Confidence In The Observational Results That Are Put Forward Until They Have Been Confirmed By Theory.

If Your Theory Is Found To Be Against The Second Law Of Thermodynamics I Give You No Hope; There Is Nothing For It But To Collapse In Deepest Humiliation.