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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of
thought
to some definite field of experience.
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The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary
thought
and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of
thought
.
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experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
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The question, "Why?" which is always appropriate where the explanation of a contradiction is concerned, like all proper habitudes of
thought
, can overreach itself and be asked where nothing remains to be understood.
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It is characteristic of the naive and sanguine beginnings of
thought
in youthful men and nations, that all problems are held to be soluble and fundamentally intelligible on the first appearance of success.
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The communication of knowledge and the necessity which everyone feels of managing his stock of experience with the least expenditure of
thought
, compel us to put our knowledge in economical forms.
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Every real problem can and will be solved in due course without supernatural divination, entirely by accurate observation and close, searching
thought
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Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no
thought
in her work to the fashions. But, strange to say, in this work, the most beautiful fashions are of themselves produced.
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I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their
thoughts
creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of
thoughts
too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.
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An incomplete knowledge put into words forms a relatively firm prop for fleeting
thoughts
, from which the
thoughts
, seeking among facts, set out, and to which, modifying it by criticism and comparison, they continually return.
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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has
thought
that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
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Is science itself anything more than — a business? Is not its task to acquire with the least possible work, in the least possible time, with the least possible
thoughts
, the greatest possible part of eternal truth?
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Language, with its helpmate, conceptual
thought
, by fixing the essential and rejecting the unessential, constructs its rigid pictures of the fluid world on the plan of a mosaic, at a sacrifice of exactness and fidelity but with a saving of tools and labor.
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Without its associated
thought
a word remains a mere sound.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
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Born:
February 18, 1838
Died:
February 19, 1916
(aged 78)
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