The tendency of the sciences has long been an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment. The mathematician turns away from the chemist; the chemist from the naturalist; between the mathematician and the chemist is to be interpolated a "physician" (we have no English name for him), who studies heat, moisture and the like.


Quarterly Review, Volume 51, 1834 (p. 59)

William Whewell Quotes

The tendency of the sciences has long been an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment. The mathematician turns away from the chemist;...

The tendency of the sciences has long been an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment. The mathematician turns away from the chemist;...

The tendency of the sciences has long been an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment. The mathematician turns away from the chemist;...

The tendency of the sciences has long been an increasing proclivity of separation and dismemberment. The mathematician turns away from the chemist;...