UNTIL we know thoroughly the nature of matter and the forces which produce its motions, it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question. Elements of Natural Philosophy - Page 130by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1873 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1867 - 914 pages
...wasted for the time and measured. I I DIVISION II. ABSTRACT DYNAMICS. CHAPTER V.— INTRODUCTORY. 438. UNTIL we know thoroughly the nature of matter and...produce its motions, it will be utterly impossible Sent o to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question. It has been... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...statement can be real, no ideal truth be a transcript of the actual order in its real complexity. " Until we know thoroughly the nature of matter, and...reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question/' f and even then it will only be mathematical relations which will be formulated. The approximate solutions... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1876 - 254 pages
...whose exact influence can never be ascertained. "Until we 1 "Principles of Science," vol. ii., p. 453. know thoroughly the nature of matter, and the forces which produce its motions," say Thomson and Tait,1 " it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact... | |
| William Henry Platt - Apologetics - 1878 - 228 pages
...secretions. "Bixby, 174. of matter, and the forces which produce its motions, says Thomson and Tait, it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question.1 Even physical astronomy, where the nearest approximation to actual conditions is found,... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1883 - 564 pages
...treatthe forces which produce its motions, it will be utterly im- ment °' ' , , * physical possible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact conditions...question. It has been long understood, however, that approximate solutions of problems in the ordinary branches of Natural Philosophy may be obtained by... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 pages
...statement can be real, no ideal truth be a transcript of the actual order in its real complexity. ' Until we know thoroughly the nature of matter, and...reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question,' and even then it will only be mathematical relations which will be formulated. The approximate solutions... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - Religion - 1885 - 600 pages
...statement can be real, no ideal truth be a transcript of the actual order in its real complexity. ' Until we know thoroughly the nature of matter, and...reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question,' and even then it will only be mathematical relations which will be formulated. The approximate solutions... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1885 - 220 pages
...therefore, there •will always be numberless factors whose exact influence can never be ascertained. " Until we know thoroughly the nature of matter, and the forces which produce its motions," say Thomson and Tail,* " it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 252 pages
...thoroughly the nature of matter, and the forces which produce its motions," say Thomson and Tait,1 " it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical...reasoning the exact conditions of any physical question." The approximate solutions which are reached " are attained by a species of abstraction or rather limitation... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 260 pages
...whose exact influence can never be ascertained. "Until we 1 " Principles of Science," vol. ii., p. 453. know thoroughly the nature of matter, and the forces which produce its motions," say Thomson and Tait,1 " it will be utterly impossible to submit to mathematical reasoning the exact... | |
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