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1. "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

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

3. "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

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

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

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

7. "The mathematics is not there till we put it there." ~ Arthur Eddington

8. "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

9. "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

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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

13. "Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo." ~ Arthur Eddington

14. "The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world." ~ Arthur Eddington

15. "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

16. "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." ~ Arthur Eddington

17. "Who will observe the observers?" ~ Arthur Eddington

18. "[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects." ~ Arthur Eddington

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That chair -shall I ever forget it? Where the shadows fell on the canvas upholstery, stripes of a deep but glowing indigo alternated with stripes of an incandescence so intensely bright that it was hard to believe that they could be made of anything but blue fire. For what seemed an immensely long time I gazed without knowing, even without wishing to know, what it was that confronted me. At any other time I would have seen a chair barred with alternate light and shade. Today the percept had swallowed up the concept. I was so completely absorbed in looking, so thunderstruck by what I actually saw, that I could not be aware of anything else. Garden furniture, laths, sunlight, shadow - these were no more than names and notions, mere verbalizations, for utilitarian or scientific purposes, after the event. The event was this succession of azure furnace doors separated by gulfs of unfathomable gentian. It was inexpressibly wonderful, wonderful to the point, almost, of being terrifying."
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