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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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