 | Gerald James Holton - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 372 pages
...that is independent of the observer or theorist. As he put it in one of several early formulations,51 "The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is at the basis of all natural science," even though the physically real, of which our sense experiences... | |
 | Fritz Rohrlich - Philosophy - 1989 - 244 pages
...This article presents strong arguments in favor of a holistic view of life. PanC The quantum world The belief in an external world independent of the...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Albert Einstein Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - English literature - 1987 - 372 pages
...Einstein's essay on Clerk Maxwell in the collection perhaps riddlingly entitled The World as I See It: "The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or... | |
 | E.G. Ballard - Education - 1989 - 368 pages
...of order and coordinates sensation.6 His position on this matter is best presented in his own words: The belief in an external world independent of the...we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows that our notions of physical reality can never be final.6 In other words, as I would express... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 428 pages
...macro levels. He had a simple but highly influential epistemology, based on his own scientific work: The belief in an external world independent of the...we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready... | |
 | James T. Cushing - Science - 1994 - 344 pages
...any other fashion a priori." Similarly, in a 1931 essay on Maxwell's concept of reality, he wrote: The belief in an external world independent of the...we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready... | |
 | Robert S. Cohen, Risto Hilpinen, Ren-Zong Qiu - History - 1996 - 532 pages
...foundation of all scientific researches. The scientific belief is definitely described by Einstein as "the belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."29 It is also expressed by Bohr, when he notes that the description of atomic phenomena is... | |
 | Carl Ratner - Medical - 1997 - 278 pages
...recognize that knowledge is contingent and is constantly changing. Einstein explained this as follows: The belief in an external world independent of the...Since, however, sense perception only gives information indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions... | |
 | Beat Lehmann - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 384 pages
...der Zugang zu ihr nur über die gesamte Wahrnehmung erfolgen kann: „Since, however [fundamental] sense perception only gives Information of this external...we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final" (Einstein 1973a [1931],... | |
 | Doug Lorimer - History - 1999 - 220 pages
...surface phenomena of its object of study. The great 20th century physicist Albert Einstein observed: "The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."1 This belief is the cornerstone of the materialist world outlook. Butpre-Marxist materialists... | |
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Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of 'physical reality' indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. 
