14 ordspråk av Sir Arthur Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
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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.
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I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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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.
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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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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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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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."
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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'.
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When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked "I wonder who is the third?"
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