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Men Quotes by Arthur Eddington
- Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with…
- Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you…
- A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy…
- 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…
- Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
- In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he…
- Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
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