There is no drawing the line between physics and metaphysics. If you examine every day facts at all closely, you are a physicist; but if you press your physics at all home, you become a metaphysician; if you press your metaphysics at all home, you are in a fog.


The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Volume 1), 1874-1883 (p. 259)

Samuel Butler Quotes

There is no drawing the line between physics and metaphysics. If you examine every day facts at all closely, you are a physicist; but if you press...

There is no drawing the line between physics and metaphysics. If you examine every day facts at all closely, you are a physicist; but if you press...

There is no drawing the line between physics and metaphysics. If you examine every day facts at all closely, you are a physicist; but if you press...

There is no drawing the line between physics and metaphysics. If you examine every day facts at all closely, you are a physicist; but if you press...