On the purely physical or descriptive view, the idea of cause is quite out of place. In description we are solely concerned with the "how" of things, and their "why" we purposely leave out of account.


Address to the British Association, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volume 80, Number, 2079, September 29, 1899 (p. 155)

John Henry Poynting Quotes

On the purely physical or descriptive view, the idea of cause is quite out of place. In description we are solely concerned with the how of things,...

On the purely physical or descriptive view, the idea of cause is quite out of place. In description we are solely concerned with the how of things,...

On the purely physical or descriptive view, the idea of cause is quite out of place. In description we are solely concerned with the how of things,...

On the purely physical or descriptive view, the idea of cause is quite out of place. In description we are solely concerned with the how of things,...