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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn’t (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 Quotes)
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 Quotes)
So far as physics is concerned, time’s arrow is a property of entropy alone (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme... the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory (Arthur Eddington Quotes)
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