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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Arthur Eddington

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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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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 impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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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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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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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 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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Who will observe the observers?
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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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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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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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