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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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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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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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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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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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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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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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 quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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