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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.
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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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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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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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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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by 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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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
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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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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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