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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.

Arthur Eddington

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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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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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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