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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
Explore more quotes by Arthur Eddington
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them."
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