Arthur Eddington Quotes
It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
-
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
-
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
-
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
-
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
-
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
-
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
-
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
-
No hero is mortal till he dies.
-
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
-
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
-
'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
-
I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
-
Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
-
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
-
In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.
-
Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.
-
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
-
Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we've worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden that until that moment had made us appear innocent and lovable. Human beings give the worst of themselves when their cultural clothes are torn off, and they find themselves facing the nakedness of their bodies, they feel the shame of them. In a certain sense the loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it's the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it's the discovery of one's own dispensability and perishability.
-
It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
