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We now apply these laws of mental processes, to which the explanation of our own inner consciousness leads, to explain the order and adaptation observed on the earth, i.e., to explain Being and historical development.

— Bernhard Riemann Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)

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Natural science is the attempt to comprehend nature by precise concepts.

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There remains only the assumption that the ponderable masses within the rigid earth-crust are supporters of the soul-life of the earth.

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Every entering mind-mass excites all related mind-masses and this excitation is the more powerful the more insignificant the diversity of their inner states (quality).

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Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction.

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With every simple act of thinking, something permanent, substantial, enters our soul.

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