Archive for category: Arthur Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) was a British astrophysicist, astronomer, and physicist known for his work on stellar structure and relativity. He played a key role in elucidating the processes powering stars and the role of nuclear fusion as their energy source.

Quote about the source of a star's energy by Arthur Eddington

Arthur Eddington Quotes on the Energy Source of Stars – Fascinating Insights from 1926

11. April 2023

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"The problem of the source of a star’s energy will be considered, by a process of exhaustion we are driven to conclude that the only possible source of a star’s energy is subatomic yet it must be confessed that the only hypothesis shows little disposition to accommodate itself to the detailed requirements of observation, and a critic might count up a large number of fatal objections." Arthur Eddington

Quote about mind and consciousness by Arthur Eddington

Mental Substance and Consciousness – Arthur Eddington

6. July 2020

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"The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference." Arthur Eddington