Tag: Sir Arthur Eddington

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own.

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We 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’.

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