“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.” FirstsWellsStillsDonePlayMovingScienceValuesForcePleasureProgressConditionsPerformancesScientistCuriositySakeMotiveContentmentWell DoneInsatiableWork Well Done Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.” ScienceAccountsEnginesSteamSteam Engines Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;-the philosophers and the scientists.” WorldTwoScienceNationsResultsPartyLaborScientistPhilosopherSeparationThinkerRapids Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.” WorldFirstsFormScienceUniverseImaginationSpaceImpossibleCreationMaterialsPureMassConceptsIndependentStructureChemicalsIsolatedIntroducingInvestigationBlankCompositionNeverthelessMathematicianNewtonConfiguration Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
