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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ↗

— William James

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

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