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 do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.
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 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 …
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…
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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