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“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.” quote by Arthur Eddington — Download Open image

“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.”

Arthur Eddington

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good…

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Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

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Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

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To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and…

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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

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The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever.…

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

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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We…

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If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but…

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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

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