Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

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

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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.

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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.

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