 | Seba Smith - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...widely and deeply into the works of nature than any other philosopher has hitherto done, remarks that " Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." SECTION IV. COMMENSURABLE AND INCOMMENSURABLE QUANTITIES. STRICTLY speaking, there are no quantities... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...conjecture that Nature always works in the simplest possible manner. It is true that Newton said '' Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. "f But for all that, the seduction of simplicity has led many a philosopher off the right track ; and... | |
 | M. B. Craven - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...things, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance ;" on the ground that Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes, (Principia, vol. 2, b. 3). And Dr. McCosh — Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Queens College, Belfast,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...violates it : "To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is vain when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with...simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." Now who shall say that Nature doing nothing in vain is a 'true cause,' or that Nature's 'pleasure'... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 984
...Number,' in ' Curious Myths of the Middle Ages' (1866), p. 209. m ' Principle,' bk. III. ad initiwm. vain, when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with...simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." KeiLl, again, lays downn as an axiom that ' The causes of natural things are such, as are the most... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...violates it : " To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is vain when less will serve ; for Nature is pleased with...simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." Now who shall say that Nature doing nothing in vain is a " true cause/' or that Nature's " pleasure... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...1 " To this purpose the philosophers say, that nature does nothing in vain, when less will servo ; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." Keill lays down 2 as an axiom that " The causes of natural things are such, as are the most simple,... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more, is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, Occam, had used... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) . In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, Occam, had used... | |
 | Samuel Spahr Laws - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 108
...appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that nature docs nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity,...and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.— (Newton's Principia, p. 476.) In the fourteenth century, an English Schoolman, 'Occam, had used this... | |
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WE ARE TO ADMIT NO MORE CAUSES OF NATURAL THINGS THAN SUCH AS ARE BOTH TRUE AND SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN THEIR APPEARANCES. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased... 
