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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
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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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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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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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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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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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.
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Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: Who's the third?
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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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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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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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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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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