Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
Arthur EddingtonLet us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.
Arthur EddingtonAn ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Arthur EddingtonIf an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Arthur EddingtonIt cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
Arthur Eddington