Arthur Eddington Quotes

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Love
  • Evil

• Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Parents
  • More
  • Shine

• Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Ways

• If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Newspaper

• The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Why
  • Win

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Deep

• I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Job
  • Day

• Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Sea
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Age
  • Free
  • Child

• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Powerful

• A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • World
  • Political
  • Dark

• Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Together

• We have become a nation incapable of living within our means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a home is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward for working hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase a property, but to maintain and improve it.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Home
  • Reality

• Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

  

  Arthur Eddington