The History Of The Development Of Mechanics

Without Renouncing The Support Of Physics, It Is Possible For The Physiology Of The Senses, Not Only To Pursue Its Own Course Of Development, But Also To Afford To Physical Science Itself Powerful Assistance.

What Mach Calls A Thought Experiment Is Of Course Not An Experiment At All. At Bottom It Is A Grammatical Investigation.

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.

Science Always Has Its Origin In The Adaptation Of Thought To Some Definite Field Of Experience.

Similarly, Many A Young Man, Hearing For The First Time Of The Refraction Of Stellar Light, Has Thought That Doubt Was Cast On The Whole Of Astronomy, Whereas Nothing Is Required But An Easily Effected And Unimportant Correction To Put Everything Right Again.