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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.

Arthur Eddington

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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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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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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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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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[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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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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