It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference — inference either intuitive or deliberate.


Ch. 13 Reality - The Nature of the Physical World (1928)

Arthur Eddington Quotes

It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny...

It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny...

It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny...

It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny...