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"… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share
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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