19 ideas
| 7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
| 2975 | That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so [Timon] |
| 7541 | Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe] |
| 17471 | Using mechanisms as explanatory schemes began in chemistry [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17472 | Thick mechanisms map whole reactions, and thin mechanism chart the steps [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 7543 | We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty [Goethe] |
| 7540 | Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe] |
| 7538 | The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe] |
| 7542 | The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe] |
| 7539 | To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe] |
| 17465 | Lavoisier's elements included four types of earth [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17468 | Over 100,000,000 compounds have been discovered or synthesised [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17469 | 'H2O' just gives the element proportions, not the microstructure [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17470 | Water molecules dissociate, and form large polymers, explaining its properties [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17473 | It is unlikely that chemistry will ever be reduced to physics [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17474 | Quantum theory won't tell us which structure a set of atoms will form [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17475 | For temperature to be mean kinetic energy, a state of equilibrium is also required [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17467 | Isotopes (such as those of hydrogen) can vary in their rates of chemical reaction [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |
| 17466 | Mendeleev systematised the elements, and also gave an account of their nature [Weisberg/Needham/Hendry] |