7 ideas
| 8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
| 8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
| 8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
| 8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
| 22363 | You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin] |
| 468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
| 20644 | Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature [Kelvin] |