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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

James Clerk Maxwell

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
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Degree Law Same Sea Second Statement Thermodynamics Throw Tumble Water
The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.
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Doctrine Evidence Against Experiment Mathematician Result Theory Verification
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
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Complete Equipment Four Mathematician Number Quality Regard Rule Said Whole World
Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
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Body Flyin Gin Met Through
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.
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All Another Diamond Focus Glass Merge Outlines Phenomenal Pitch Put Screw Sometimes Theory Thing Unless
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
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Certain Destroy Generate Het Process Show Substance
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.
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Distinguish Effect Expansion Form Gasses Great Indentifite Large Matter Other Power Vessel
What’s the go of that? What’s the particular go of that?
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Go Particular
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other … and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis.
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Another Body Energy Exist Leave Medium Must One Substance Time Transmitted
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
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Also Contrary Convince Greta Gun Hold Paper Theory
But, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.
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Doubtful Education Enlightened Mind Symbol Themselves Venture
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
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Course Function Independent Least Perceived Show Sufficient Think Three Thrive Time Variable
The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.
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Biblical Bury Change Ground Hypothesis Interpretation Dimension Long More Rate Scientific
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
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Between Exact Found Law Mathematical Number Physical Problem Reduce Relation Science
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.
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Christ Christmas Coundm Study Learn Men Mind Need Other Science Scientific Think View Well
I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding.
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Battering Breach Change Effect Ever Now Retuning Ring Saturn Several Solid Splash

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