Our system of philosophy is itself on trial; it must stand … - Arthur Eddington

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Our system of philosophy is itself on trial; it must stand or fall according as it is broad enough to find room for this experience as an element of life.

Arthur Eddington

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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.

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Native Name: sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Alternative Names: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington • Sir Arthur Eddington

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

The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

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