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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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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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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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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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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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Who will observe the observers?
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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 impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
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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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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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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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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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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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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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I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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