When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked I wonder who is the third
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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.Sir Eddington
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 Eddington
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Eddington
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
Sir Eddington
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
Sir Eddington
I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way.
Sir Eddington
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