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Quotes from The Domain of Physical Science — Arthur Eddington

1882–1944 England

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And so in its actual procedure physics studies not these inscrutable qualities, but pointer-readings which we can observe, The readings, it is true, reflect the fluctuations of the world-qualities; but our exact knowledge is of the readings, not of the qualities. The former have as much resemblance to the latter as a telephone number has to a subscriber.

The Domain of Physical Science (1925)

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