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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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I am afraid the knockabout comedy of modern atomic physics is not very tender towards our aesthetic ideals. The stately drama of stellar evolution turns out to be more like the hair-breadth escapades in the films. The music of the spheres has a painful suggestion of — jazz.

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Arthur Eddington

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Born: December 28, 1882
Died: November 22, 1944 (aged 61)
Bio: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician of the early 20th century who did his greatest work in astrophysics. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science.
Known for:
  1. The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
  2. Space, time and gravitation (1920)
  3. The mathematical theory of relativity (1920)
  4. The philosophy of physical science (1939)
  5. Science and the unseen world (1929)
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