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Top Arthur Eddington Quotes

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Favorite Arthur Eddington Quotes

1. "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." ~ Arthur Eddington
2. "Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't." ~ Arthur Eddington
3. "We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'" ~ Arthur Eddington
4. "If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum." ~ Arthur Eddington
5. "Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter." ~ Arthur Eddington
6. "Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." ~ Arthur Eddington
7. "The mathematics is not there till we put it there." ~ Arthur Eddington
8. "If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." ~ Arthur Eddington
9. "It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory." ~ Arthur Eddington
10. "It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control." ~ Arthur Eddington
11. "It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them." ~ Arthur Eddington
12. "It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star." ~ Arthur Eddington
13. "Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo." ~ Arthur Eddington
14. "The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world." ~ Arthur Eddington
15. "We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'." ~ Arthur Eddington
16. "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." ~ Arthur Eddington
17. "Who will observe the observers?" ~ Arthur Eddington
18. "[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects." ~ Arthur Eddington

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