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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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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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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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Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.
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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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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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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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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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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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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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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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It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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