The Assumption Of An Absolute

When I Began My Physical Studies [in Munich In 1874] And Sought Advice From My Venerable Teacher Philipp Von Jolly...he Portrayed To Me Physics As A Highly Developed, Almost Fully Matured Science...possibly In One Or Another Nook There Would Perhaps Be A Dust Particle Or A Small Bubble To Be Examined And Classified, But The System As A Whole Stood There Fairly Secured, And Theoretical Physics Approached Visibly That Degree Of Perfection Which, For Example, Geometry Has Had Already For Centuries.

An Experiment Is A Question Which Science Poses To Nature And A Measurement Is The Recording Of Nature's Answer.

Physical Changes Take Place Continuously, While Chemical Changes Take Place Discontinuously. Physics Deals Chiefly With Continuous Varying Quantities, While Chemistry Deals Chiefly With Whole Numbers.

The Worth Of A New Idea Is Invariably Determined, Not By The Degree Of Its Intuitiveness-which Incidentally, Is To A Major Extent A Matter Of Experience And Habit-but By The Scope And Accuracy Of The Individual Laws To The Discovery Of Which It Eventually Leads.

The History Of All Times And Nations Teaches Us That Exactly In The Naïve, Unshakable Belief, Furnished By Religion In Active Life Of Believers, Originate The Most Intense Motives For The Most Significant Creative Performance, Not Only In The Field Of Arts And Sciences But Also In Politics.