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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…
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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first…
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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing…
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,…
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The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and…
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Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring…
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To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there!…
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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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