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About Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
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Additional quotes by Arthur Stanley Eddington
I can see no more reason for preferring the theories of fifty years ago than for preferring the observational data of fifty years ago.
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and.
The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but between the metrical and the non-metrical.