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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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Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
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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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[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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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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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.
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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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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
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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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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
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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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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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