That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us.… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance.… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
