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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible…
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in…
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The…
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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours,…
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but…
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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved…
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire…
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and…
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced…
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a…
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.…
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in…
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I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the…
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