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Knowledge 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…
- Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
- There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven…
- 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…
- Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
- I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the…
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