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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…
• It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The…
• In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but…
• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find…
• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving…
• Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible…
• 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,…

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