The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immedi… - Arthur Eddington

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The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.

Arthur Eddington

The Nature of the Physical World · 1981 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Alternative Names: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington • Sir Arthur Eddington

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I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.

It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.

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

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