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" But are we sure of our observational facts? Scientific men are rather fond of saying pontifically that one ought to be quite sure of one's observational facts before embarking on theory. Fortunately those who give this advice do not practice what they preach. "

Arthur Eddington
" Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. "

Arthur Eddington
" Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. "

Arthur Eddington
" I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons. "

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

Arthur Eddington
" 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
" 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
" 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. "

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

Arthur Eddington
" 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
" 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
" Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician. "

Arthur Eddington
" 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
" Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. "

Arthur Eddington
" Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. "

Arthur Eddington
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