Sir Arthur Eddington Quotes

Sir Arthur Eddington Quotes

Sir Arthur Eddington Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Sir Arthur Eddington:

"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."

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

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

"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'."

"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own."

"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually bee"

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