The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out… — 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,… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
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
