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Arthur Eddington Quote

“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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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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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'.

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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.

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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.

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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

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