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Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Eddington
- Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
- Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
- The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
- It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
- Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
- Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
- The word reality frightens me.
- 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 quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
- Who will observe the observers?
- There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
- It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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