British - Scientist | December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Arthur Eddington
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
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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 mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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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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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
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Who will observe the observers?
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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
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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.
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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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