Science Is The Most Complete Presentment Of

My Table Is Now Brightly, Now Dimly Lighted. Its Temperature Varies. It May Receive An Ink Stain. One Of Its Legs May Be Broken. It May Be Repaired, Polished, And Replaced Part By Part. But, For Me, It Remains The Table At Which I Daily Write.

Physics Is Experience, Arranged In Economical Order.

The Task Which We Have Set Ourselves Is Simply To Show Why And For What Purpose We Hold That Standpoint During Most Of Our Lives, And Why And For What Purpose We Are Provisionally Obliged To Abandon It.

In Reality, The Law Always Contains Less Than The Fact Itself, Because It Does Not Reproduce The Fact As A Whole But Only In That Aspect Of It Which Is Important For Us, The Rest Being Intentionally Or From Necessity Omitted.

Similarly, Many A Young Man, Hearing For The First Time Of The Refraction Of Stellar Light, Has Thought That Doubt Was Cast On The Whole Of Astronomy, Whereas Nothing Is Required But An Easily Effected And Unimportant Correction To Put Everything Right Again.