Sir Arthur Eddington Quote

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and im...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, o...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvat...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

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

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked
"I wonder who is ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked "I wonder who is the t...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

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

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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thin...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand ...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can ...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forw...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there i...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

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

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature ...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Who will observe the observers?
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvat...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of gener...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it ...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads n...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

Religious creeds are a great obstacle to any full sympathy between the outlook of the scientist and ...
ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

Experience is the extract of suffering.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place...
SIR ARTHUR KENT

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great ...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. A...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

I believe that the basic planks of our strategy ... are a good foundation for a return to profitabil...
ROD EDDINGTON

[BA argues that Chapter 11 is used as another form of state aid and keeps the industry bloated at a ...
ROD EDDINGTON

I am confident we will have it (Concorde) back in the air by late summer.
ROD EDDINGTON

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO

I'd like to see America but I'm afraid to risk it. As soon as I got over Mr. Frohman might request m...
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particul...
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO

All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more d...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profou...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in trea...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politic...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or th...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs f...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was ...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without havi...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insuranc...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the leng...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

This is quite a three-pipe problem.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor ...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To th...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

You see, but you do not observe.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and su...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twi...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fo...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.
SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalmOf green days telling with a quiet beat.
SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not; For where I am I would not be...
SIR ARTHUR T. QUILLER-COUCH

Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM

There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR

It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR

I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR

No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the v...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judais...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lo...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured th...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last severa...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which we...
ARTHUR GODFREY

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistak...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Time is that in which all things pass away.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave ne...
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

(In...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD

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