Random Quotes
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.Henry Ford
0Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
Never spend your money before you have it.Thomas Jefferson
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.Sir Arthur Eddington
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
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.Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.Sir Arthur Eddington, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science