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Arthur Eddington Quotes: Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
         

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.


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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.



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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.



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