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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
- Arthur Eddington
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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 may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
- Arthur Eddington
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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
- Arthur Eddington
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
- Arthur Eddington
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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
- Arthur Eddington
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
- Arthur Eddington
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
- Arthur Eddington
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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
- Arthur Eddington
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Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
- Arthur Eddington
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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.
- Arthur Eddington
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
- Arthur Eddington
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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
- Arthur Eddington
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
- Arthur Eddington
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
- Arthur Eddington
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If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
- Arthur Eddington
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