Sir Eddington
Sir Eddington
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRSwas an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician of the early 20th century who did his greatest work in astrophysics. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honor...
asked men understood wonder
When told that only 3 men in the world understood Relativity, Eddington asked "I wonder who is the third?
absurd behaving law nature prevent star
I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!
stranger universe
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
british-scientist idol proof pure whom
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.