Arthur David Ritchie Quotes

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Philosophers who write about Science and scientists who write about Philosophy are too often preoccupied with the scientific theories and discoveries of the moment to the detriment of both their Science and their Philosophy.

Arthur David Ritchie
It is a grave difficulty in the analytical treatment of scientific ideas that the simple laws are so vaguely conceived that analysis is difficult and the theories that are precisely formulated are often put forward as dogma and the evidence in favor of them has sunk into oblivion or into the realm of myth.

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 concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.

Arthur David Ritchie
There is nothing in the world as ephemeral as scientific theory, nothing so musty and ancient as old scientific theory.

Arthur David Ritchie
The facts of the external world stand to our scientific knowledge. Or to our commonsense knowledge (there is no difference in principle between them) much in the same relation as a library of books stands to the catalogue.

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