“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
