 | Abdus Salam, Z. Hassan, C. H. Lai - Science - 1984 - 392 pages
...Einstein's Herbert Spencer lecture of l933 expresses his, my colleagues', and my own views more accurately. "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...of reality starts from experience and ends in it." This is exactly how I feel about the Gargamelle-SLAC experience. III. THE PRESENT AND ITS PROBLEMS... | |
 | Gerald James Holton - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 372 pages
...step with such precision that every single one of its propositions was absolutely indubitable." But "propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality"; "through purely logical thinking we can attain no knowledge whatsoever of the empirical world." Einstein... | |
 | Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson, Denys Wilkinson - Astrophysics - 1991 - 244 pages
...of, and struggle with, those "known facts." Einstein was also very clear about this when he wrote: Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Jean Paul Sartre was wrong in saying: Facts and essences are incommensurables; one who begins his enquiry... | |
 | James Still - Drama - 1992 - 70 pages
...writing it. "...Neither reason nor mathematics nor maps were any use to me." — Christopher Columbus "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...reality starts from experience and ends in it..." — Albert Einstein ACT I In DARKNESS we hear the roar of many VOICES— like a jet taking off or Alfred... | |
 | Noel Balzer - Mathematics - 1993 - 164 pages
...cannot yield knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts with and ends in reality. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality."'* Einstein offered the series of integers as an obvious invention of the human mind. This is fair enough.... | |
 | Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali - Science - 1994 - 700 pages
...Einstein's Herbert Spencer lecture of 1933 expresses his, my colleagues', and my own views more accurately. "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...of reality starts from experience and ends in it." This is exactly how I feel about the Gargamelle -SLAC experience. III. THE PRESENT AND ITS PROBLEMS... | |
 | Cheryl J. Misak - Philosophy - 1995 - 276 pages
...present at the same place'.'3"' 1ndeed, Einstein makes the positivist-sounding remark that '[pjure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of...logical means are completely empty as regards reality.' (1934: 32) And: '[i]n order that thinking might not degenerate into "metaphysics", or into empty talk,... | |
 | Kenneth E. Avis - Medical - 1995 - 432 pages
...ASPECTS OF WFI SYSTEMS DESIGN Henry Kuhlman Kuhlman Technologies, Inc. Drew Coleman ICOS Corporation Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends with it. Albert Einstein And so, we start into the world of water. Water to drink. Water for vegetation.... | |
 | Robert J. Sbordone, Charles Long - Psychology - 1996 - 538 pages
...frontal brain syndrome with practical implications. Ecological validity comes into focus. CONCLUSION Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...of reality starts from experience and ends in it. . . because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he... | |
 | Stig Lundqvist - Science - 1992 - 622 pages
...Einstein's Herbert Spencer lecture of 1 933 expresses his, my colleagues' and my own views more accurately. "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge...of reality starts from experience and ends in it." This is exactly how I feel about the Gargamelle-SLAC experience. III. THE PRESENT AND ITS PROBLEMS... | |
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. 
