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 from Sir Arthur Eddington For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 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 We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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
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
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “physics” For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable. —Frank Wilczek More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless. —William McDonough More about this quote Tags: science physics sun nuclear energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love gravity physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable. —Frank Wilczek More about this quote Tags: physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless. —William McDonough More about this quote Tags: science physics sun nuclear energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love gravity physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email