Peter Guthrie Tait Quote

An exact or adequate conception of matter itself, could we obtain it, would almost certainly be something extremely unlike any conception of it which our senses and our reason will ever enable us to form.... The discovery of the ultimate nature of matter is probably beyond the range of human intelligence.


Properties of Matter (2nd edition), Chapter I (pp. 13, 16)


An exact or adequate conception of matter itself, could we obtain it, would almost certainly be something extremely unlike any conception of it which ...

An exact or adequate conception of matter itself, could we obtain it, would almost certainly be something extremely unlike any conception of it which ...

An exact or adequate conception of matter itself, could we obtain it, would almost certainly be something extremely unlike any conception of it which ...

An exact or adequate conception of matter itself, could we obtain it, would almost certainly be something extremely unlike any conception of it which ...