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You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Pursuit Of Knowledge Religion Science Truth Seeking

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Cybernetics Science Systems

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Light Nature Science Spirit

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Consciousness Physics Science Spirit Symbolism

The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Mind Nature Science Stuff

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

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The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Existence Universe

A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Atomic Energy Billions Of Years Energy Star Sun Time

An individual is a four-dimensional objectof greatly elongated form, in ordinary language we say he has considerable extension in time and insignificant extension in space.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Gravitation Space Time

Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ... We obtain action when we multiply energy by time. ... We are challenged to find a unified theory of electric particles and radiation in which the electrostatic type of action and the quantum type of action are traced to their source.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington Fine Structure Constant Physics Quantum Theory Science
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