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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
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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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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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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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[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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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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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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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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 are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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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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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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Who will observe the observers?
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