Arthur Eddington Quotes:
Ocupation: Astronomer
Life: December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944
Birthday: December 28
Death: November 22
Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.
source: "The Philosophy of Physical Science". Book by Arthur Eddington, 1938.
