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For the truth of the conclusi...

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

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

I believe there are 15, 747, ...

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.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

It is reasonable to hope that...

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

It cannot be denied that for ...

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.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

Something unknown is doing we...

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

Philosophically, the notion of...

Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

In Einstein's theory of relati...

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

To the pure geometer the radiu...

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the 'cat without a grin' and the 'grin without a cat' are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

What we makes of the world mus...

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 98 quotes

The word reality frightens me....

The word reality frightens me.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

If your theory is found to be ...

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

In any attempt to bridge the d...

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

We have found that where scien...

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

[When thinking about the new r...

[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.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

I don't believe any experiment...

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of 'conventional' wisdom.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

Who will observe the observers...

Who will observe the observers?

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

The quest of the absolute lead...

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

I ask you to look both ways. F...

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.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

But it is necessary to insist ...

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.

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

Asked in 1919 whether it was t...

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?'

Arthur Eddington 98 quotes

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