Spencer Heath Archive

Item 787

Quotes from Sir James Jeans, Physics & Philosophy, Cambridge 1942.

Page 1/  “Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed — sometimes with startling results. … Sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.”

(Copernicus, Darwin, Newton)

Page 4/  “Nothing is left in the world but happenings .. the pattern of events.”

Page 10/ “Knowledge of the external world of physics must

always consist of ratios — numbers .. in terms of ideas which are already in our minds.”