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Arthur Eddington - The philosophy of physical science (1939)

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I believe there are 15,747, 724,136, 275,002, 577,605, 653,961, 181,555, 468,044, 717,914, 527,116, 709,366, 231,025, 076,185, 631,031,296 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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We have discovered that it is actually an aid in the search for knowledge to understand the nature of the knowledge we seek.

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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

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Between physics and philosophy there lies a debatable territory which I shall call scientific epistemology.

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He is an incorruptible watch-dog who will not allow anything to pass which is not observationally true.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Arthur Eddington

Arthur Eddington
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Born: December 28, 1882
Died: November 22, 1944 (aged 61)
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