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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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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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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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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.
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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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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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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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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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'
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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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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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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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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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