Arthur Eddington Quotes
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If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.
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We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.
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The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.
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pp. 90–92
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We have travelled far from the standpoint which identifies the real with the concrete. Even the older philosophy found it necessary to admit exceptions; for example, time must be admitted to be real, although no one could attribute to it a concrete nature.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.
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You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.
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We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
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Our environment may and should mean something towards us which is not to be measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
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The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.
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Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.
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At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.