It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
Tag: Sir Arthur Eddington
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.