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Are you sure you want to Yes No. Be the first to like this. No Downloads. It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena. Thomas J. McConnack , Of all the concepts which the natural inquirer employs, the simplest are the concepts of space and time.
Recurrences of like cases in which A is always connected with B , that is, like results under like circumstances, that is again, the essence of the connection of cause and effect, exist but in the abstraction which we perform for the purpose of mentally reproducing the facts. Let a fact become familiar, and we no longer require this putting into relief of its connecting marks, our attention is no longer attracted to the new and surprising, and we cease to speak of cause and effect.
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. As quoted, without source, in E. Bell, Men of Mathematics , Vol. That scientific work should be more useful the more it has been used, while mechanical work is expended in use, may seem strange to us. The aim of natural science is to obtain connections among phenomena.
Theories, however, are like withered leaves, which drop off after having enabled the organism of science to breathe for a time. The aim of research is the discovery of the equations which subsist between the elements of phenomena. The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. The mechanical speculations of the ancients, particularly of the Greeks, related wholly to statics.
Dynamics was founded by Galileo. This feeling finds a sort of justification when we reflect that the majority of the ideas we deal with were conceived by others, often centuries ago. In a great measure it is really the intelligence of other people that confronts us in science. Sorry, but we can't respond to individual comments. Recent searches Clear All. Update Location. If you want NextDay, we can save the other items for later.
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