Top 20 Quotes by 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.

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

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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.'

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

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.

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.

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