If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Arthur EddingtonWe 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'.
Arthur EddingtonWe are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
Arthur EddingtonAn electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.
Arthur EddingtonIn the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.
Arthur Eddington