Sir Arthur Eddington

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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Sir Arthur Eddington

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Sir Arthur Eddington

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 have still to make of a study of 'and.'

Sir Arthur Eddington

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Sir Arthur Eddington

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

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

Sir Arthur Eddington