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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron it belongs to the waiting list.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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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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Who will observe the observers?
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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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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're 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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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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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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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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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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