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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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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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[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.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron it belongs to the waiting list.
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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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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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