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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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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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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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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're 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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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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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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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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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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A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.
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