Arthur Eddington Quotes

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Only entropy comes easy.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

Even God cannot change the past.