You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star. — Arthur Eddington
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. — Arthur Eddington
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn’t. — Arthur Eddington
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the british museum. — Arthur Eddington
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational — Arthur Eddington
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; — Arthur Eddington
One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the sun, do not go straight. — Arthur Eddington
Probably the simplest hypothesis… is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. — Arthur Eddington