"An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate."

-- Arthur Eddington

#Stars Quotes #Science Quotes #Hypothesis Quotes

“I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!”
“While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.”
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
“If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.”
“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
“I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.”
“It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.”
“Your version of the truth is all that matters.”

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