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From Quotes by Arthur Eddington
- There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus…
- Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with…
- Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws…
- Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one…
- We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.…
- The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
- It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and…
- It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
- 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…
- The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
- We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
- The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
- [When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or…
- 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…
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