“I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.<!--IV, p.49

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