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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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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
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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 physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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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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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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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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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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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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 electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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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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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 a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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