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'. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Sir Arthur Eddington 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 More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Something unknown is doing we don't know what. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Something unknown is doing we don't know what. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “mathematics” The mathematics is not there till we put it there. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. —Plato More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. —Johann von Neumann More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. —Frank Wilczek More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mathematics is not there till we put it there. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. —Plato More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. —Johann von Neumann More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. —Frank Wilczek More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email