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
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
—Sir Arthur 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 Arthur Eddington