3 ideas
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
16746 | Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton] |
19414 | Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz] |