Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Arthur Eddington

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.'

Arthur Eddington

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Arthur Eddington

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Arthur Eddington

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

Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Arthur Eddington

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Arthur Eddington

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

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'.

Arthur Eddington