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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

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I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupa…

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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest…

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But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, an…

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Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the…

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It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

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Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

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