Arthur Eddington Quotes

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I don't know what's on the other side.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Things that are unknown attract us.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

There is so much left of it to explore.

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.