Arthur Eddington Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The mathematics is not there till we put it there.”

“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.'”

“Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.”

“The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.”

“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.”

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

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

“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.”

“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.”

“Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.”