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

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

Forget

Study

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Arthur Eddington

Mathematics

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Arthur Eddington

Nature

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington

May

Who will observe the observers?

Arthur Eddington

Will

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.

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

Arthur Eddington

Quest

World

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.

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

Arthur Eddington

Army

Books

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

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

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

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.