Cases Quote by Arthur Eddington

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them;…

— Arthur Eddington

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

— Arthur Eddington

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be…

— Arthur Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

— Arthur Eddington

The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves…

— Arthur Eddington

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

— Arthur Eddington

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We…

— Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but…

— Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

— Arthur Eddington