The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough. - Arthur David Ritchie
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
- Arthur David Ritchie
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature … - Arthur David Ritchie
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature …
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must… - Arthur David Ritchie
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must…
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experien… - Arthur David Ritchie
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experien…
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change … - Arthur David Ritchie
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change …
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concer… - Arthur David Ritchie
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concer…
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