Arthur Eddington Quotes

I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

I love the sea.

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

I've swam with great white sharks.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

I feign no hypotheses.

What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.