We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness that we can attribute a meaning to it.


The Nature of the Physical World, Chapter XII (p. 267), The University Press. 1929

Arthur Eddington Quotes

We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness...

We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness...

We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness...

We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness...