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When I portrayed myself as a worm, you were surprised that I included by boyhood and old age. But to think of a man without his duration is just as a… - Arthur Eddington
" "When I portrayed myself as a worm, you were surprised that I included by boyhood and old age. But to think of a man without his duration is just as abstract as to think of a man without his inside. The four-dimensional worms introduced in this chapter seem to many people terribly abstract. Not at all; they are unfamiliar conceptions but not abstract conceptions. It is the section of the worm (the man Now) which is an abstraction. The non-abstract man enduring through time is the common source from which the different abstractions are made.
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About Arthur Eddington
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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