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Arthur Eddington Quotes: If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
         

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


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There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.



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The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.



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



The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.



You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.



It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.



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'.

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'.



Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.



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.

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.



It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.





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