A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
