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

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
Astronomer
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Philosopher
Physicist
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
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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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Time is the supreme Law of 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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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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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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Who will observe the observers?
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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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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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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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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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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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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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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