The Grammar of Science, Part 1 |
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absolute actual analysis angle anomy assert associated atom causation cause ception chapter classify conceive conception conceptual limit consciousness construct contingency table continuous corpuscles corresponding curvature curve definition describe direction earth element equal ether ether-elements existence facts field force geometrical ideals gravitation gross matter groups of sense-impressions hodograph human idea Ignorabimus imagination immediate sense-impression impressions individual infer infinite infinite divisibility jelly knowledge laws of motion logical mean mean curvature measure mechanical metaphysical mind mode of perception molecules moving mutual accelerations natural law observed parallelogram law particles past perceive perceptive faculty perceptual experience perfect fluid physical physicist possible postulate present prime-atom probability ratio reach reader reality reason relative motion relative position result rigid body routine of perceptions scientific law scientific method sequence space speed sphere spurt stored sense-impressions substratum suppose surface tangent term theory things time-chart tion ultimately universe variation velocity word
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Page 349 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 277 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Page 32 - The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
Page 33 - ... it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice that I determined not for some time to write even the.
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Page 187 - A real quantity, infinitely less than any finite quantity, containing quantities infinitely less than itself, and so on in infinitum ; this is an edifice so bold and prodigious that it is too weighty for any pretended demonstration to support, because it shocks the clearest and most natural principles of human reason. But what renders the matter...
Page 75 - An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, 1709; A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710; and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 1713.
Page 12 - The man who classifies facts of any kind whatever, who sees their mutual relation and describes their sequences, is applying the scientific method and is a man of science.
Page 6 - The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.
Page 393 - Neither more, nor more onerous, causes are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phenomena.