Peter Guthrie Tait Quote

From the earliest times man's apprehension of the causes and connections of natural phenomena has been rendered uncertain and imperfect by his wilfully ignoring the great fact that Natural Philosophy is an experimental, and not an intuitive, science.


Sketch of Thermodynamics (2nd edition), Chapter I (p. 1)


From the earliest times man's apprehension of the causes and connections of natural phenomena has been rendered uncertain and imperfect by his...

From the earliest times man's apprehension of the causes and connections of natural phenomena has been rendered uncertain and imperfect by his...

From the earliest times man's apprehension of the causes and connections of natural phenomena has been rendered uncertain and imperfect by his...

From the earliest times man's apprehension of the causes and connections of natural phenomena has been rendered uncertain and imperfect by his...