6 ideas
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
9423 | If simplicity and strength are criteria for laws of nature, that introduces a subjective element [Mumford on Lewis] |
9424 | A number of systematizations might tie as the best and most coherent system [Mumford on Lewis] |
9409 | Laws are the best axiomatization of the total history of world events or facts [Lewis, by Mumford] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |