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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.

James Clerk Maxwell

Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
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Avenue Country Destroy Fancy Infinite Long People Person Think Unbound Universe
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
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Energy Field Files However Literally Speak Understood
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.
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Before Condition Day Descarte Few Great Involve Mental Newton Now Ourselves Philosopher Place Such Very
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
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
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.
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Country Death Deli Tous Expression Germ Hobby Invent Men Mission Other People Person Seem Structureless
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
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Amount Build Data Every Branch Facility Fact Knowledge Obtain Progress Proportional Therefore
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.
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Anothermeffect Less Mind Nature Professed Scientific Secret Through Unravel Valuable Work Worker
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.
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Endurable Great Interest Live Science Siccovery Some Take
My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying,
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Convict Entangled Intellect Liquid Marline Ride Soul Spike Unseen Untwisting Votex Wrought
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
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
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
It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.
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Always Deduce Dynamic Electro Formula Perfect Phenomena Unassailable
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
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

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