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When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be the simpler, on the supposition that this is more likely to lead in the direction of the truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor — Entia non multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
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If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.
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We may say that we have already considered with disfavor the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
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Students of evolution in the animal world tell us that the ear was the last of the sense-organs to arrive; it is beyond question the most intricate and the most wonderful.
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The making of models or pictures to explain mathematical formulae and the phenomena they describe is not a step towards, but a step away from reality; it is like making graven images of a spirit... All the same, the mathematical physicist is still busily at work making graven images of the concepts of the wave-mechanics.
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The cosmologist, accepting the universe for what it is, must try to discover why it is thus and not otherwise.
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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
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To this present-day science adds that, at the farthest point she has so far reached, much, and possibly all, that was not mental has disappeared, and nothing new has come in that is not mental. Yet who shall say what we may find awaiting us round the next corner?
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Time figures as the mortar which binds the bricks of matter together.
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Born:
September 11, 1877
Died:
September 16, 1946
(aged 69)
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.
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