A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations,… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
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