Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

- Arthur Eddington

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

- Arthur Eddington

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

- 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.

- Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

- Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

- Arthur Eddington

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have …

- Arthur Eddington

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our na…

- Arthur Eddington

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

- Arthur Eddington