“The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Science 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Architecture 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Business 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.… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Straight line 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Science 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Life 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Painting Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Entropy 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… — 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Nature 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Fine-structure-constant 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Conscious mind 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 Pursuit of knowledge 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… — 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… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Nature Copy Share Image
“Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and the outlook which religion is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Creeds Copy Share Image
“If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Habits Copy Share Image
“To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Each of us is armed with this touchstone of actuality; by applying it we decide that this sorry world of ours is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Dreams Copy Share Image
“When we encounter unexpected obstacles in finding out something which we wish to know, there are two possible courses to take. It… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Physics Copy Share Image
“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Habits Copy Share Image
“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Consciousness Copy Share Image
“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Passing Years Copy Share Image
“Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Religion Copy Share Image
“The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Nature Copy Share Image
