Arthur Eddington Quotes

Who will observe the observers?
Arthur Eddington

Observe, Observers

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Arthur Eddington

Wise, Sun, Light

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 put into nature.
Arthur Eddington

Nature, Science, Mind

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Arthur Eddington

Great, Two, Learn

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Arthur Eddington

Hope, Nothing, Give

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
Arthur Eddington

Forget, Two, Study

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Arthur Eddington

Body, State, Rest

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

Write, Might, Books

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington

Good, Forward, Confidence

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
Arthur Eddington

Mind, May, Succeed

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Arthur Eddington

Perfect, Impossible, Physics

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Arthur Eddington

Hope, Future, Simple

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

May, Matter, Process

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

Before, Himself, Pure

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Arthur Eddington

Nature, Cannot, Undo

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Arthur Eddington

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
Arthur Eddington

Quest, Absolute, Leads

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

Strange, Found, Unknown

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 may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
Arthur Eddington

Nature, Mind, Human

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: December 28, 1882

Died: November 22, 1944

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