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Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.
Arthur Eddington
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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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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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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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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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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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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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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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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
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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.
Arthur Eddington
When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'
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