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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

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 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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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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[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.
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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
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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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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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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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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by 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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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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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