“Time was when I loved books on astronomy — and understood <\/u>them. I can’t understand the new ones — they seem to require a new language. When a scientist like Jeans tells me that a ‘quantum’ of energy can ‘pass from one orbit of the atom to another without crossing the intervening space<\/u>‘ I metaphorically turn up my toes. Of this be true, the materialists have their last prop knocked from under them. I accept the ‘quantum theory’ becaue Sir James Jeans hands it out to me. But neither he nor anyone else can make me accept the ‘planetesimal hypothesis.’ ”<\/p>\n
— L.M. Montgomery<\/p>\n