Bertrand Russell Quote

Scientific laws, when we have reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense rules which have exceptions: they are always, at least in physics, either differential equations or statistical averages.


The Analysis of Matter, Chapter XIX (p. 191), Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc. 1927


Scientific laws, when we have reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense rules which have exceptions: they are...

Scientific laws, when we have reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense rules which have exceptions: they are...

Scientific laws, when we have reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense rules which have exceptions: they are...

Scientific laws, when we have reason to think them accurate, are different in form from the common-sense rules which have exceptions: they are...