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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.
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 quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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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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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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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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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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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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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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