Unification in science and mathematics Quotes

“Mathematics”

“History of science”

“History of chemistry”

“History of mathematics”

“All knowledge... is unification of the multiple.”

“The unification of knowledge is the natural consequence of the intellectual and moral development of the race.”

“Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.”

“The theories that we describe here provide the basis of progress toward a unification of macroeconomics and microeconomics.”

“There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.”

“It is the opinion of all competent authorities that the fundamental principles of Kant's philosophy declare against the possibility of a unification of knowledge.”

“The object of the book is philosophical, in the sense now accepted by many and by divergent schools—i.e., it desires to contribute something towards a unification of thought.”

“Now what is science? ...it is before all a classification, a manner of bringing together facts which appearances separate, though they are bound together by some natural and hidden kinship.”

“The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic laws.”

“Steffen Ducheyne, Newton's Notion and Practice of Unification*PhilSci-Archive”

“People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.”

“To see what is general in what is particular and what is permanent in what is transitory is the aim of scientific thought. ...[W]e ...endeavour to imagine the world as one connected set of things which underlies all the perceptions of all people.”

“In Newton's system of mechanics... there is an absolute space and an absolute time. In Einstein's theory time and space are interwoven, and the way in which they are interwoven depends on the observer. Instead of three plus one we have four dimensions.”

“Maxwell got a huge bonus for understanding the unification of electricity and magnetism. He understood the nature of light! When I first heard about this in high school I thought this was the coolest thing, and I still do. It's what we're all trying to do.”

“Whatever its source, mathematics has come down to the present by the two main streams of number and form. The first carried along arithmetic and algebra, the second, geometry. In the seventeenth century these two united, forming the ever-broadening river of mathematical analysis.”

“In whatever they focus on, physicists seek the simplicity in complexity and the unity in diversity. Like philosophers, their intellectual siblings, they are driven by the conviction that the universe is within the human power to understand and that if you look beneath its variety and intricacy, you will find comprehensible rules.”