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God is that which is unexplained

Created on 2008-11-27 07:19:52 (#17306371), last updated 2009-06-19

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Name:	Arthur Eddington
Birthdate:	10-11
Location:	United Kingdom

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Greatest measuring man in EnglandArthur Stanley Eddington, 37 years old, born on December 12 1882. Astrophysicist for the University of Cambridge, Quaker in religion.

Character as portrayed by David Tennant in Einstein and Eddington, as well as the scientist he was based on.

The Star WatcherStars had the look of dogs to him sometimes,
Sometimes of bears and more than once of flowers,
But stars were never strange to him because
Of where they stood. We knew him jealous
And in his younger days a little sly
About his place among poesies;
Yet when his eyes showed envy or delight
They rested upon knowledge, not on distance.
All that he saw, up close or farther off,
Was capable of being understood,
Though not by him perhaps. He had enough
Of science in him to be optimistic,
Enough of tragedy to know the worst,
Enough of wit to keep on listening,
Or watching, when it came to the stars. He knew,
Across the distance that their light might travel,
That nothing matters to the stars but matter,
Yet that their watchers have to learn the difference
Between the facts of knowledge and of love.
Or of love's opposite, which might be hate.
Therefore he taught, and, like the best of teachers,
Often annoyed the students at his feet,
Whether they learned too much or not enough,
Whether or not they understood him wrong.
Two was his pleasure, and the balance held
In love, in conversation, or in verse.
With knuckles like buried hemlock roots, his hands
Had, in his age, smooth palms as white as milk;
And, through the massy clouddbanks of his brows,
His eyes burned shrewdly as emerging stars.

Peter Davison, 1963

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