“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.” DoeImportantWholeFactsRealityLawAspect Book:Popular Scientific Lectures Source: Popular Scientific Lectures
“Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.” MayWholeProblemEconomyDirectMathematicsMathDefinedMathematicalNo ProblemCounting Author:Ernst Mach
“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.” KnowsMenWorldLooksPhilosophyWholeBodyCreationRegardMedicineEverydaySensesWhole WorldFamiliarBlindnessSomaDeafness Book:The analysis of sensations Source: The analysis of sensations
“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.” MenFirstsWholeLightYoungDoubtFirst TimeCastsHearingAstronomyYoung ManUnimportantCorrectionsStellar Book:The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
