Bryce

“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

“The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

“Nowadays a long Romantic tradition has caused us to think of poets as private dreamers, ill-adapted to social intercourse and the horrors of a materialist world but thereby guardians of value and the messengers of our common soul. In 1711 François senior would have viewed a young poet as a modern parent might view an aspirant television celebrity.”
― Roger Pearson, Voltaire Almighty