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Arthur Eddington

"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own."

Source : Space, Time and Gravitation (p. 131)

Arthur Eddington

#Feet Quotes #Profound Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.”
“Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.”
“When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.”
“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because Iâ€™ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesnâ€™t matter. I feel like writing.”
“There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that.”
“To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.”

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