We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
From Arthur Eddington
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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 still have to make a study of 'and.'
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
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.
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
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'.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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