Original engl.: "As far as and beyond the remotest stars the world is filled with aether. It permeates the interstices of the atoms. Aether is everywhere. ... There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space." - New pathways in science - Cambridge: University Press, 1935 (Messenger lectures 1934) S. 38-39
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Zitiert von Robert B. Laughlin: Abschied von der Weltformel, Deutsch von Helmut Reuter, Widmungsblatt für Laughlings Frau Anita, S. 5, Piper Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3492047180
Original engl.: "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - Als Motto in Robert B. Laughlin: A Different Universe - Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. .
Wird auch sonst oft ohne Quellenangabe Eddington zugeordnet. Es könnte sich um eine Abwandlung einer Aussage von J. B. S. Haldane handeln, aus Possible worlds - New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002. - ISBN 0-7658-0715-7 - Originalausgabe: Possible worlds and other essays, London : Chatto & Windus, 1927 - p. 286: "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
„Die Mathematik ist nicht da, solange wir sie nicht da hinstellen.“
Zitiert von Robert B. Laughlin: Abschied von der Weltformel, Deutsch von Helmut Reuter, 10. Kap. "Das Gewebe der Raumzeit", S. 179, Piper Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3492047180
Original engl.: "The mathematics is not there till we put it there." - The Philosophy of Physical Science : Tarner Lectures 1938 - New York: Macmillan, 1941. - p. 137 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=XHE39fF8NMMC&pg=PA137&dq=till
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Quelle: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. VIII, p.79
Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 4 The Running-Down of the Universe
The Internal Constitution of Stars, Cambridge. (1926). ISBN 0521337089
Paraphrased variants: 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.
It is not too much to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
III, p.36
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Stars and Atoms (1927); lecture 1
New Pathways in Science (1935) Ch. IV The End of the World, p. 62
p, 125
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
Quelle: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. V, p.53
“The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.”
Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 2 Relativity
“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.”
Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 15 Science and Mysticism
p, 125
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
The Internal Constitution of Stars, Cambridge. (1926). ISBN 0521337089
“Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.”
III, p.36
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
That is an excellent description of Pure Mathematics, which has already been given by an eminent mathematician <nowiki>[</nowiki>Bertrand Russell<nowiki>]</nowiki>.
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
“The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.”
Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 10 The New Quantum Theory <!-- p. 219 -->
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
“Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.”
Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 4 The Running-Down of the Universe
Quelle: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. IV, p.48-49
V, p.55
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existence
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Quelle: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 13 Reality
“Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word "Ought" still has sway.”
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
IV, p.41
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