 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 212 Seiten
...more widely and deeply into the works of nature than any other philosopher has hitherto done, remarks that " Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." SECTION IV. COMMENSURABLE AND INCOMMENSURABLE QUANTITIES. STRICTLY speaking, there are no quantities... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1856 - 126 Seiten
...in vain; " and more is in vain (says Newton, when laying down the rule) when less will serve ; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." And, again, more specially in another place, thi.s greatest of physicists puts the interesting query,... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1891 - 806 Seiten
...conjecture that Nature always works in the simplest possible manner. It is true that Newton said '' Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. "f But for all that, the seduction of simplicity has led many a philosopher off the right track ; and... | |
 | M. B. Craven - 1871 - 330 Seiten
...natural things, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance ;" on the ground that Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes, (Principia, vol. 2, b. 3). And Dr. McCosh — Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Queens College, Belfast,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1874 - 512 Seiten
...the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is vain when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." Now who shall say that Nature doing nothing in vain is a 'true cause,' or that Nature's 'pleasure'... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 984 Seiten
...Middle Ages' (1866), p. 209. m ' Principle,' bk. III. ad initiwm. vain, when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." KeiLl, again, lays downn as an axiom that ' The causes of natural things are such, as are the most... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1874 - 456 Seiten
...the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is vain when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." Now who shall say that Nature doing nothing in vain is a " true cause/' or that Nature's " pleasure... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vam when less will serve; tor nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.— <Newton's Pr1ncipia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, Occam, had used this... | |
 | Samuel Spahr Laws - 1879 - 108 Seiten
...the philosophers say that nature docs nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.— (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, 'Occam, had used this... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 Seiten
...the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) . In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, Occam, had used... | |
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased... 
