Quotes from Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

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

The road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

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

Nature's Compensation: Entropy The [second] law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.