87 Quotes by Arthur Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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

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.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.

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.

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.

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.'