Arthur Eddington Quotes

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?