Found Quote by Arthur Eddington

“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only…

— Walter Isaacson

“The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had…

— Walter Isaacson

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's…

— Anonymous

“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all…

— Dan Brown

“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…

— George Wilson

“truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.’ ” “More Oscar Wilde?” “Galileo, the father of modern…

— Kami Garcia

“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

“Langdon wondered if maybe Edmond had discovered that human intellect, after aeons of progress, was now on the decline. There were certainly alarming indicators…

— Dan Brown

“Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and windows, and Ed Lim, tired by then, would…

— Celeste Ng

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I…

— René Descartes

“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex equations that…

— Walter Isaacson