Arthur Eddington Short Quotes

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The great thing about time is that it goes on.

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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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A reasoned theory is preferable to blind extrapolation.

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I would rather believe in ghosts than in hyperbolic meteors.

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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.

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The external world of physics has become a world of shadows.

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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

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Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

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

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Philosophically the notion of a beginning of Nature is repugnant to me.

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My subject [astronomy] disperses the galaxies, but it unites the Earth.

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There are two parties to every observation - the observed and the observer.

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Accidental truth of a conclusion is no compensation for erroneous deduction.

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So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

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There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.

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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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Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

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The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.

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Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

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A spherical world, closed but continually expanding, is a new playground for thought.

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I have not suggested that religion and free will can be deduced from modern physics...

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Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word "Ought" still has sway.

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The running away of the galaxies does not mean that they have a kind of aversion from us.

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If there were no matter in the universe, the law of gravitation would fall to the ground.

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I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

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Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.

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