The essential difference, which we meet in entering the rea… - Arthur Eddington

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The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word "Ought."

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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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