Arthur Eddington Quotes

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

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

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.

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

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

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.

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.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

The world is generally multivariate

There is so much more to understand.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

There are no answers, only cross references.

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.