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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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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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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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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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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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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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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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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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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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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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