Arthur Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

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

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.