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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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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Arthur Eddington
Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
Arthur Eddington
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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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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[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.
Arthur Eddington
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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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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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
Arthur Eddington
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
Arthur Eddington
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
Arthur Eddington
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
Arthur Eddington
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.
Arthur Eddington
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.
Arthur Eddington
I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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