Arthur Eddington

Scientist

1882-12-28 – 1944-11-22

English astrophysicist and mathematician who made major contributions to stellar structure and relativity. He led the 1919 eclipse expedition whose observations supported Einsteins general theory of relativity. His scientific writing and public lectures helped shape early 20th-century astronomy.

Quotes by Arthur Eddington

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
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