The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen th… - Arthur Eddington

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The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions.

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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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Native Name: sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Alternative Names: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington • Sir Arthur Eddington
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Originators like Arthur Eddington:
Werner Heisenberg Erwin Schrödinger Frank Wilczek Lawrence M. Krauss Henri Poincaré

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We have travelled far from the standpoint which identifies the real with the concrete. Even the older philosophy found it necessary to admit exceptions; for example, time must be admitted to be real, although no one could attribute to it a concrete nature.
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