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Arthur Eddington [1882-1944] British

Rank: 103
Scientist, Astronomer

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician of the early 20th century who did his greatest work in astrophysics. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science.

Hope, Future, Science

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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.	Future, Hope	101
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.		102
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.		103
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.		104
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.		105
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'.		106
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.		107
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.	Hope	108
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.	Science	109
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.		110
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.		111
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.		112
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.		113
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.		114
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.		115
Who will observe the observers?		116
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.'		117
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.		118
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.		119
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.		120

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