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

#formulating #irrational #laws #may #mind

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

— Arthur Eddington

#because #deals #determinism #impossible #into

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind

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

#distant #future #hope #judgment #shall

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

— Arthur Eddington

#hypothesis #matter #may #probably #process

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

— Arthur Eddington

#himself #idol #mathematician #proof #pure

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#nature #only #shuffling #the only thing #thing

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#put #till

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#into #leads #quest #world

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

— Arthur Eddington

#found #shores #strange #unknown