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Physics Quotes by Arthur Eddington
- 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…
- It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
- So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
- In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow…
- 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…
- To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is…
- In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
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