Balfour Stewart Quotes

• I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.

  Balfour Stewart

  Philosophy, Exercise, Science

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• It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

  Balfour Stewart

  Taken, Impossible, Cases

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