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The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
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From the point of view of philosophy of science the conception associated with entropy must I think be ranked as the greatest contribution of the nineteenth century to scientific thought.
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Whatever may be time de jure, the Astronomer Royal's time is time de facto. His time permeates every corner of physics.
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Amid all our faulty attempts at expression the kernal of scientific truth steadily grows; and of this truth it may be said — The more it changes, the more it remains the same.
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It is quite commonly said that scientific theories about the world are neither true nor false but merely convenient or inconvenient.
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The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental, but between the metrical and non-metrical.
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The destinies of organic life may be determined by what are at first sight irrelevant accidents.
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. In physics we are generally content to sacrifice before the lesser shrine of plausibility.
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That which in the physical world shadows the nonsense in the mind affords no ground for its condemnation. In a world of aether and electrons we might perhaps encounter nonsense; we could not encounter damned nonsense.
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The mind is irresistibly drawn to play with the thought that somewhere in the universe there may be other beings - a little lower than the angels" whom Man may regard as his equals - or perhaps his superiors.
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If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.
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Born:
December 28, 1882
Died:
November 22, 1944
(aged 61)
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