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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Philosopher
Physicist
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
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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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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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Who will observe the observers?
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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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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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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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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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What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.
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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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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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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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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[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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