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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
— Arthur Eddington
The word reality frightens me.
— Arthur Eddington
The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
— Arthur Eddington
Probably the simplest hypothesis ... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
— Arthur Eddington
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
— Arthur Eddington
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.
— Arthur Eddington
There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
— Arthur Eddington
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
— Arthur Eddington
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
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.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
— Arthur Eddington
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
— Arthur Eddington
The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
— Freeman Dyson
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
— Arthur Eddington
Who will observe the observers?
— Arthur Eddington
Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.
— Arthur Eddington
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.
— Arthur Eddington
Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
— Arthur Eddington
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
— Arthur Eddington
Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
— Arthur Eddington
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
— Arthur Eddington
Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
— Arthur Eddington
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
— Arthur Eddington
Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
— Karen C. Eddington
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
— Arthur Eddington
You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
— Arthur Eddington
What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
— Arthur Eddington
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
— Arthur Eddington
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
— Arthur Eddington
Time is the supreme Law of nature.
— Arthur Eddington
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.
— Arthur Eddington
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
— Arthur Eddington
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.
— Arthur Eddington
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
— Arthur Eddington
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
— Arthur Eddington