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- I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena…
- My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
- The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances…
- The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can…
- Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several…
- There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
- While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal…
- Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by…
- In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.…
- A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
- The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic…
- No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds…
- Leadership is based on complex phenomena.
- A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to…
- The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly…
- Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up…
- All religions have been created to explain things we know nothing about. For the Greeks, natural phenomena such as lightning could not be explained in…
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- The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill
- Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons
- I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our… — Francois Magendie
- The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson
- I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci
- In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster
- Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace