The Acquisition Of The Most Elementary Truth

Without Renouncing The Support Of Physics, It Is Possible For The Physiology Of The Senses, Not Only To Pursue Its Own Course Of Development, But Also To Afford To Physical Science Itself Powerful Assistance.

In Reality, The Law Always Contains Less Than The Fact Itself, Because It Does Not Reproduce The Fact As A Whole But Only In That Aspect Of It Which Is Important For Us, The Rest Being Intentionally Or From Necessity Omitted.

When I Recall Today My Early Youth, I Should Take The Boy That I Then Was, With The Exception Of A Few Individual Features, For A Different Person, Were It Not For The Existence Of The Chain Of Memories.

All This, The Positive And Physical Essence Of Mechanics, Which Makes Its Chief And Highest Interest For A Student Of Nature, Is In Existing Treatises Completely Buried And Concealed Beneath A Mass Of Technical Considerations.

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.