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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

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
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Absolutes
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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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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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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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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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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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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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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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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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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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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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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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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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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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