... I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. ...
... The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ...
... Среди других трудов Эддингтона - Движение звезд и строение Вселенной (Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe, 1914); Пространство, время и тяготение (Space, Time and Gravitation, 1920); Внутреннее строение звезд (Internal Constitution of the ...
... The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ...