When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked "I wonder who is the third?"

When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked
"I wonder who is the third?"

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

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'.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.