87 Quotes by Arthur Eddington

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

I hope it will not shock experimental physicists too much if I say that we do not accept their observations unless they are confirmed by theory.

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

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

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

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

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.

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'.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.