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Arthur Eddington Inspirational Quotes (46)

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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
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There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
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The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.
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An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
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Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a here and a there, but to an extension such as that which relates here and there. To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together it is a lot of distances interlocked.
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An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.
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What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'.
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