Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

— Arthur Eddington

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has…

— Arthur Eddington

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose…

— Arthur Eddington

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

— Arthur Eddington

An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger…

— Arthur Eddington

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be…

— Arthur Eddington

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings…

— Arthur Eddington

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

— Arthur Eddington

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

— Arthur Eddington

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

— Arthur Eddington

The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and…

— Arthur Eddington

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works…

— Arthur Eddington

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a…

— Arthur Eddington

If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the…

— Arthur Eddington

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of…

— Arthur Eddington

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing…

— Arthur Eddington

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must…

— Arthur Eddington

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

— Arthur Eddington

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would…

— Arthur Eddington

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

— Arthur Eddington

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put…

— Arthur Eddington

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

— Arthur Eddington

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

— Arthur Eddington