“When we encounter unexpected obstacles in finding out something which we wish to know, there are two possible courses to take. It may be that the right course is to treat the obstacle as a spur to further efforts; but… — 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
“You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Just as we were misled into untenable ideas of the aether through trusting to an analogy with the material ocean, so we have been… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
