The Philosophy of Sir James Jeans

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Sep 1934

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Nature, Volume 134, Issue 3387, pp. 499 (1934).

Physics

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I GLADLY join in Dr. Jeffreys's tribute to Mach and Karl Pearson, but I would suggest that these thinkers do not constitute `science'. I do not think it can be gainsaid that the great majority of the most prominent scientific workers (Lord Kelvin, of course, springs to mind, and I think he is typical) did not regard science as Dr. Jeffreys defines it. Indeed, if the views of isolated individuals are to be accepted as `science', I am not sure that we ought not to go back much further than the eighties of last century-at least to Newton, who regarded the absoluteness of motion as having an experimental and not an a priori foundation.

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