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… there is no doubt that his words express what is in our minds when we refer to determinism.

— Arthur Eddington (1933)



A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy;
A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe.

— Arthur Eddington (1933)



I deal with the view now tentatively held that the whole material universe of stars and galaxies of stars is dispersing, the galaxies scattering apart so as to occupy an ever-increasing volume. But I deal with it not as an end in itself. To take an analogy from detective fiction, it is the clue not the criminal.

— Arthur Eddington (1940)



Astronomical measurements are, without exception, measurements of phenomena occurring in a terrestrial observatory or station; it is only by theory that they are translated into knowledge of a universe outside.

— Arthur Eddington (1933)



Aether is everywhere.

— Arthur Eddington (1934)



But what, therefore, am I? A thing that thinks?

— René Descartes (1641)



What possible justification could there be for the choice of a particular boundary condition―aside from the fact that it works, i.e. that it leads to what we observe?

— Craig Callender (2001)



Cosmologists, even more than laboratory physicists, must find the usual interpretive rules of quantum mechanics a bit frustrating ….

— John Bell (1987)



But in 1952 I saw the impossible done. It was in papers by David Bohm.

— John Bell (1987)