 | George Shann - 1902 - 80 Seiten
...(ie Aristotle) 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." From all this it appears that in those times philosophers, poets, and men of science alike, tacitly... | |
 | John Jones - 1903 - 202 Seiten
...purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, aud more is vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." 280. We think that Newton iu his love of simplicity Arid under the domination of the thought that lf... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1907 - 514 Seiten
...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." RULE II. " Therefore to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes."... | |
 | T. J. J. See - 1907 - 340 Seiten
...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." RULE II. " Therefore to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes."... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Jackson See - 1908 - 150 Seiten
...land and water hemispheres, are all closely related and dependent upon a single physical cause. FIG. 16. Water Hemisphere, which has the World Ridge around...papers on the physics of the earth may be briefly summarized as follows : 1. The theory of the secular leakage of the oceans explains satisfactorily... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1908 - 760 Seiten
...land and water hemispheres, are all closely related and dependent upon a single physical cause. FIG. 16. Water Hemisphere, which has the World Ridge around...papers on the physics of the earth may be briefly summarized as follows : 1. The theory of the secular leakage of the oceans explains satisfactorily... | |
 | Joseph Battell - 1909 - 352 Seiten
...the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain whea less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. RULE II. Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.... | |
 | Henry Wilde - 1910 - 52 Seiten
...their appearances ; for 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.' I have already said that when a comet is ejected from a planet opposite to the orbital motion, its... | |
 | Laurence Ladd Buermeyer, Laurence Buermeyer - 1923 - 372 Seiten
...Isaac Newton when he says: "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." ' Perhaps this desire for simplicity is rather a characteristic trait of the mind of man than the result... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 Seiten
...METAPHYSICAL SIMPLICITY WILLIAM FORBES COOLEY Sir Isaac Newton has informed us, somewhat magisterially, that "Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. " : It is matter for wonder what were the great physicist's grounds for this confident obiter dictum,... | |
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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... 
