Physics
- Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion.
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“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
—Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)