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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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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 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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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'
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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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Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a here and a there, but to an extension such as that which relates here and there. To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together it is a lot of distances interlocked.
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The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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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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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 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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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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 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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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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