"In physics we have outgrown archer and apple-pie definitions of the fundamental symbols. To a request to explain what an electron really is supposed to be we can only answer, "It is part of the ABC of physics". The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. ...that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances."
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Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928) Published versions of his Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh (Jan-Mar, 1927)
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