“If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite so drastic an interference with natural law as other modes of mental interference that have been suggested. (Perhaps… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The suggestion that the body really wanted to go straight but some mysterious agent made it go crooked is picturesque but unscientific. It makes… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Of the two alternatives - a curved manifold in a Euclidean space of ten dimensions or a manifold with non-Euclidean geometry and no extra… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ...… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds… It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
