Quotes by Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

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Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of...

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Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light...

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall...

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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature...

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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it...

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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may...

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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results...

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If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give...

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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line,...

#Arthur Eddington