Quotes from Sir Arthur Eddington

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

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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

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

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.

An individual is a four-dimensional objectof greatly elongated form; in ordinary language we say he has considerable extension in time and insignificant extension in space.