Arthur Eddington Quotes

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

despite its apparent impracticality, the Administration values discovery-oriented science, and aims to continue to support the grand quest for knowledge about the universe at the largest and smallest scales.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.