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Quotes from Science and the Unseen World — Arthur Eddington

1882–1944 England

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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.

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The finding of one generation will not serve for the next. It tarnishes rapidly except it be reserved with an ever-renewed spirit of seeking.

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Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions … For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word "Ought."

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.

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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.

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I think it is not irreligion but a tidiness of mind, which rebels against the idea of permeating scientific research with a religious implication.

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It is an astonishing feat of deciphering that we should have been able to infer an orderly scheme of natural knowledge from such indirect communication.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.

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Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.

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Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word "Ought" still has sway.

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You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Eddington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.