It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Arthur EddingtonThe physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Arthur EddingtonIf I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.
Arthur Eddington