Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn’t. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. Arthur Eddington Read Quote
