I shall mix together results which may prove to be of scientific importance and results that are probably no more than mathematical curiosities. The plan is to set down anything that seems worthy of note, even though we cannot see that it has any ultimate importance in nature.


The Expanding Universe, Chapter III, Section I (p. 66), At the University Press. 1952

Arthur Eddington Quotes

I shall mix together results which may prove to be of scientific importance and results that are probably no more than mathematical curiosities. The...

I shall mix together results which may prove to be of scientific importance and results that are probably no more than mathematical curiosities. The...

I shall mix together results which may prove to be of scientific importance and results that are probably no more than mathematical curiosities. The...

I shall mix together results which may prove to be of scientific importance and results that are probably no more than mathematical curiosities. The...