Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

1882 - 1944

English astronomer and physicist, Professor of Astronomy (from 1913) and Director of the Observatory (from 1914) at Cambridge University.

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past? I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

1928 The Nature of the Physical World, ch.4. Martin Amis used the phrase'Time's Arrow' for the title of his1991novel.

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I ask you to look both ways.For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
— 1928 Stars and Atoms, lecture1.

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I think it is something of the same sort of security we should seek in our relationship with God. The most flawless proof of the existence of God isno substitute for it; and if we have that relationship, the most convincing disproof is turned aimlessly aside.If I may say it with reverence, the soul and God laugh together over so odd a conclusion.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
— 1929 Science and the Unseen World.

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I believe that there are15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605, 653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231, 425,076,185,631,031,296 protonsintheuniverse, and the same number of electrons.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
— 1938 Tarner Lecture.

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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

1882 - 1944

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