Franz Aepinus Quote

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to their proximate causes and primitive forces, even though the causes of those causes have not yet been detected.


R.W. Home (ed.), Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (1979)


I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to ...

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to ...

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to ...

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to ...