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"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, More quotation on Physics. | |
"We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong."
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"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982, More quotation on Science. | |
"Something unknown is doing we don't know what."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, comment on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, 1927, More quotation on Physics. | |
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, More quotation on Physics. | |
"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920, More quotation on Physics. | |
"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 atom has been reached through the stars."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1, More quotation on Physics. | |
"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'."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977, More quotation on Mathematics. | |
"Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, More quotation on Mathematics. | |
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
- Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science, More quotation on Mathematics. |
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