There was just one alternative, the earth’s true velocity t… - Arthur Eddington

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There was just one alternative, the earth’s true velocity through space might happen to have been nil.

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 mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions … For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.

There was just one alternative, the earth’s true velocity through space might happen to have been nil. - Arthur Eddington

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