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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.'