Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
—Arthur Eddington
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
—Arthur Eddington
Topics: Nature
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
—Arthur Eddington
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—Arthur Eddington
Topics: Time
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