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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington
Book, Writing, Army
The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

Arthur Eddington
Book, Writing, Army
The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.'

Arthur Eddington
Smart, Writing, Science

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