Famous Quotes / Sir Arthur Eddington
14 Quotations by Sir Arthur Eddington
- 1. For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It ...
- 2. I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and im ...
- 3. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a ...
- 4. It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
- 5. It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it ...
- 6. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- 7. Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
- 8. Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children ...
- 9. Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
- 10. The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
- 11. We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
- 12. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, o ...
- 13. We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is ...
- 14. We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that ...