We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget that we have still to make a study of 'and'.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonWe are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
Arthur Stanley 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 Stanley EddingtonI believe that there are 15,747,724,136,275,02,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonStichwörter: astrophysicist
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonWhether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonStichwörter: science nature light spirit
We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonStichwörter: science consciousness spirit physics symbolism
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonStichwörter: existence universe
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonAn ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonStichwörter: science systems cybernetics
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