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Hans Christian von Baeyer


Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary.
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Hans Christian von Baeyer
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
von Baeyer quotes
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
von Baeyer
An electron is real; a probability is not.




Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?
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