ABSTRACT
Einstein, Albert Just now I am teaching the foundations of poor deceased mechanics, which is so beautiful. What will her successor look like? With that question I torment myself incessantly.
Jevons, William Stanley The principles of mechanics. . . seem comparatively simple and obvious as explained to us in books of instruction. But the early philosophers did not possess such books; they had only the Book of Nature in which is set forth, not the laws, but the results of the laws, and it was only after the most patient and skilful investigation, and after hundreds of mistakes, that those laws were ascertained.
