Arthur Eddington Quotes

Arthur Eddington — British Scientist born on December 28, 1882, died on November 22, 1944

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician of the early 20th century who did his greatest work in astrophysics. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour... (wikipedia)

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

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'.

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

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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