William Cecil Dampier Quote

The different sciences are not even parts of a whole; they are but different aspects of a whole, which essentially has nothing in it corresponding to the divisions we make; they are, so to speak, sections of our model of Nature in certain arbitrary planes, cut in directions to suit our convenience.


The Recent Development of Physical Science, Chapter I (p. 16), John Murray. 1904


The different sciences are not even parts of a whole; they are but different aspects of a whole, which essentially has nothing in it corresponding to ...

The different sciences are not even parts of a whole; they are but different aspects of a whole, which essentially has nothing in it corresponding to ...

The different sciences are not even parts of a whole; they are but different aspects of a whole, which essentially has nothing in it corresponding to ...

The different sciences are not even parts of a whole; they are but different aspects of a whole, which essentially has nothing in it corresponding to ...