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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 which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

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Arthur Eddington's Popular Quotes

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

- Arthur Eddington

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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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 has put into nature. We have …

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Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

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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.

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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

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Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our na…

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