 | Gerald James Holton - 1986 - 372 lehte
...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 - 1989 - 244 lehte
...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 - 1987 - 372 lehte
...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 - 1989 - 368 lehte
...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...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of 'physical reality'... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 424 lehte
...external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical...be final. We must always be ready to change these notions — that is to say, the axiomatic substructure of physics — in order to do justice to perceived... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 lehte
...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...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality"... | |
 | James T. Cushing - 1994 - 344 lehte
...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...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality"... | |
 | 1980 - 538 lehte
...awareness that scientific investigation cannot deliver a pure, untampered reality. As Einstein specifies: "The belief in an external world independent of the...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of 'physical reality'... | |
 | Robert S. Cohen, Risto Hilpinen, Ren-Zong Qiu - 1996 - 532 lehte
...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 - 1997 - 278 lehte
...recognize that knowledge is contingent and is constantly changing. Einstein explained this as follows: The belief in an external world independent of the...perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by... | |
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The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of 'physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter... 
