If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

I don’t believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of “conventional” wisdom.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Don’t believe the results of experiments until they’re confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

— Arthur Stanley 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.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

So far as physics is concerned, time’s arrow is a property of entropy alone.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

In Einstein’s theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

— Arthur Stanley 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.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

The word reality frightens me.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.

— Arthur Stanley Eddington
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