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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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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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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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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been 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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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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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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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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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Who will observe the observers?
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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