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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
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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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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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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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 is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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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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What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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Who will observe the observers?
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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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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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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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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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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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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