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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…
• Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in…
• It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The…
• I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
• A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours,…
• In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but…
• Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved…
• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire…
• Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
• The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and…
• The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced…
• Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

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