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Quotes from Outlines of the Science of Energetics — William John Macquorn Rankine

1820–1872 Scotland

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A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.

Outlines of the Science of Energetics (1855)

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