“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
“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
“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
“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 Analogy 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Causality 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
“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
“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 Euclidean Space 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Obstacle 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
“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
“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 Natural law Copy Share Image
“The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Clock Copy Share Image
“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Clock 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
“All I would claim is that those who in the search for truth start from consciousness as a seat of self-knowledge with… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Actuality 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 Determinism Copy Share Image
“Each electron wants the whole of three-dimensional space for its waves; so Schrodinger generously allows three dimensions for each of them. For… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Schrodinger 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
“Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Nature Copy Share Image
