Best Arthur Eddington Quotes
- Time is the supreme Law of nature. Law
- So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. Alone
- 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… Control
- In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… Advances
- The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory. Design
- If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… All
- Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes. Attributes
- Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. Cannot Undo
- Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. Another Science
- Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory. Accept
- 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 of… Ball
- I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The… Aware
- If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. All
- The word reality frightens me. Frightens
- We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Farthest
- In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he… Armed
- To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… Aside
- 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 the… Allegedly
- But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I… All
- The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle. Atom
- [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or… Discernible
- I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the… Ask
- The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. Absolute
- Who will observe the observers? Funny
- An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we… Count