“I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.”

—  Arthur Stanley Eddington

Stars and Atoms (1927); lecture 1

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