Herbert Dingle Quotes
1890–1978 England
Herbert Dingle (2 August 1890 – 4 September 1978) was an English astronomer and philosopher.
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A science in its infancy is the least satisfactory, and, at the same time, the most profitable theme for a general description.
A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.
Between the Charybdis of inaccuracy and the Scylla of abstruseness, the course is narrow and the sea is rough.
The numerical side of the theory of relativity is derived from the failure of all attempts to detect the relative motion of matter and ether.
The aim of the scientist is to express, in as simple a statement as possible, the principles underlying the order and arrangement of phenomena.
What parts of the interior or the atmosphere give rise to the various phenomena, or indeed, if these regions have any parts at all, are questions which we ask of the stars in vain.
Matter, space, and time ... according to the relativist, are types of relations between events.
Mathematics in itself, as I say, is independent of experience. It begins with the free choice of symbols, to which are freely assigned properties, and it then proceeds to deduce the necessary rational implications of those properties.
Science at the Crossroads (1972)
It is the event that is the immediate entity of perception; Nature is the sum-total of events, and every instrument of thought that our minds employ can be traced back to its ultimate origin in events.
It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.