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...self by private meditations with his God?'''<!--"To the King" (James VI of Scotland)--> ...bursted I oute in continuall reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thence forth I determined with myself by the assistance of God's spirit to ...

...bering that in it only is individual action possible; nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man ca ...sor)|William Garnett]], ''The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings'' (1884) [https://books.google.c ...

...gs are explained as the collective motion of their particles. 19th century physicists defined three [[w:Laws of thermodynamics|Laws of thermodynamics]] to sum up * Machines which do not receive their motion from heat... can be studied even to their smallest details by the mechanical the ...

* '''Madam, I have come from a country where [[people]] are hanged if they [[talk]].''' ...russia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in ''Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860'' (19 ...

'''[[w:Infinity|Infinity]]''' (symbolzed: ∞) is a term derived from the Latin ''infinitas'' or "unboundedness" denoting concepts involving limi ...valieri's principle#History|doctrine of indivisibles]] and to eliminate it from philosophical and scientific consideration. In the very years that [[Thomas ...

* The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10^-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10<sup>28</ ...managed, however, only because of the large amount of help I have received from my wife, children, colleagues and students. I find that people in general a ...

...iverse]], we discern that closed physical systems evolve in the same sense from ordered states towards a state of complete disorder called {{w|thermal equi ...f 1893 is embodied in the shift of the maximum of spectrum energy density, from red to violet, with increasing temperatures. Wien showed that a universal f ...

...nce there may be any thing else which is not moved; but nothing hinders it from being naturally adapted to be moved: for '''earth also is not borne along; ...are used by philosophers to signify certain natures, precise and abstract from all these, which are neither subject to the senses, nor can be understood b ...

...k mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by [[Raphael]] in this detail from ''The School of Athens''.<ref>No likeness or description of Euclid's physic ...s does not correspond to simple observation … [[Euclid]]'s postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around. ~ [[Richard Hamming]] ]] ...

** '''In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.''' ...anslated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in ''The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon'' (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Ma ...