“at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“in the East al-Rashid and al-Mamun were delving into Greek and Persian philosophy,”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“We simply do not find anything in the laws of nature that in any way corresponds to ideas of goodness, justice, love, or strife,”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“Though resident much of his life in the city of Cnidus on the coast of Asia Minor, Eudoxus was a student at Plato’s Academy, and returned later to teach there. No writings of Eudoxus survive, but he is credited with solving a great number of difficult mathematical problems, such as showing that the volume of a cone is one-third the volume of the cylinder with the same base and height. (I have no idea how Eudoxus could have done this without calculus.) But his greatest contribution to mathematics was the introduction of a rigorous style, in which theorems are deduced from clearly stated axioms.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
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