Arthur Eddington Quotes

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Arthur Eddington

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• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Honor

• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Know
  • Street

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Words
  • Day
  • End

• When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Cold

• It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun to travel. My favorite part is being able to perform live in front of all these amazing people; being able to connect with them and seeing their reaction makes me feel very special.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Artists
  • Going

• I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Working
  • Start
  • Driven

• It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Time
  • Light
  • Study

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Understanding
  • Possible

• I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Time
  • Free
  • Actors

• We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Death

• The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Death

• Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another. (II)

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • She
  • Eyes

• You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

  

  Marc Blucas
  • World
  • Different
  • Mind

• I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.

  

  Lily James
  • Girl
  • Fairytale
  • Cinderella

• Once again it is peaceful at Augusta National Golf Club, after some rather ugly stand-offs in recent years, when the club balked at changing its all-white, all-male membership tradition. African-Americans and female Americans are on the club manifest now along with other golf-Americans, and all is serene once again.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Golf
  • Ugly

• The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

  

  Arthur Eddington