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Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Arthur Eddington
Knowledge, Science, Theory
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.

Arthur Eddington
Knowledge, Science, Law
"Relativity theory of protons and electrons".

There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

Arthur Eddington
Time, Knowledge, Science

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

Arthur Eddington
Time, Knowledge, Science
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington
Education, Knowledge, Math

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.

Arthur Eddington
Knowledge, Science, Soul

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