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Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

“By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.”

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He made significant contributions to mathematics, physics, and astronomy. more

“Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.”

Law Term Simple Unity Combination Substance Related Gas Volume Representing Compounds Ratios Contractions

Author:Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

“Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.”

Firsts Law Science Causes Natural Principles Disease Scientist Medicine Careful Physicians Natural Law

Author:Aristotle

“Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.”

States Law Science Force Special Conditions Effects Manifest Vary Physiological

Book:Experimental Medicine

Source: Experimental Medicine

“Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.”

Matter Form Law Effects Simplicity Heat Expansion Vessel Distinguished Uniformity