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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

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
Whatever
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Nature
Truth
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Responsibility

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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by 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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
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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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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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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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