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> [“Each of us is armed with this touchstone of actuality; by applying it we decide that this sorry world of ours is actual and Utopia is a dream. As our individual consciousnesses are different, so our touchstones are different; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/each-of-us-is-armed-with-this-touchstone-of-actuality-by-applying-it/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

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> [“The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness that we can attribute a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-actuality-of-nature-is-like-the-beauty-of-nature-we-can-scarcely/)

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## More by Arthur Stanley Eddington

> [“The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-simpler-elements-of-the-scientific-world-have-no-immediate/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/we-take-as-building-material-relations-and-relata-the-relations-unite/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/it-would-probably-be-wiser-to-nail-up-over-the-door-of-the-new/)

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> [“The suggestion that the body really wanted to go straight but some mysterious agent made it go crooked is picturesque but unscientific. It makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-suggestion-that-the-body-really-wanted-to-go-straight-but-some/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-cleavage-between-the-scientific-and-the-extra-scientific-domain/)

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> [“In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/in-the-world-of-physics-we-watch-a-shadowgraph-performance-of-the/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/when-we-analyse-the-picture-into-a-large-number-of-particles-of-paint/)

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> [“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-law-that-entropy-always-increases-holds-i-think-the-supreme/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“Of the two alternatives - a curved manifold in a Euclidean space of ten dimensions or a manifold with non-Euclidean geometry and no extra…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/of-the-two-alternatives-a-curved-manifold-in-a-euclidean-space-of-ten/)

[Arthur Stanley Eddington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-stanley-eddington/)

> [“Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/out-of-the-numbers-proceeds-that-harmony-of-natural-law-which-it-is/)

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> [“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/let-us-begin-with-the-fine-structure-constant-the-fine-structure/)

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> [“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds… It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/the-mind-stuff-of-the-world-is-of-course-something-more-general-than/)

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> [“You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/you-will-understand-the-true-spirit-neither-of-science-nor-of/)

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> [“Just as we were misled into untenable ideas of the aether through trusting to an analogy with the material ocean, so we have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/just-as-we-were-misled-into-untenable-ideas-of-the-aether-through/)

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> [“We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-stanley-eddington/we-know-the-prodigality-of-nature-how-many-acorns-are-scattered-for/)

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