Arthur Eddington Quotes

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The truth is always an abyss.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

We live in a bewildering world.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.