Considered in this milieu, the detective―in his role of disentangler of enigmas―becomes an investigator into the mysteries of the cosmos.
Macmillan & Co. quotes
View All Authors View SourcesAs a scientist I simply do not believe that the present order of things started off with a bang.
— Arthur Eddington (1928)
p. 85
I shall use the phrase “time’s arrow” to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.
— Arthur Eddington (1928)
p. 69
Something unknown is doing we don’t know what―that is what our theory amounts to.
— Arthur Eddington (1928)
p. 291
To a request to explain what an electron really is supposed to be we can only answer, “It is part of the A B C of physics”.
— Arthur Eddington (1928)
p. xiv
[T]he nightmare of infinity still arises in regard to time. The world is closed in its space dimensions like a sphere, but it is open at both ends in the time dimension.
— Arthur Eddington (1928)
p. 83
A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place.
— Lewis Carroll (1871)
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
— Lewis Carroll (1871)
‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely.
— Lewis Carroll (1865)