Franz Ulrich Theodoslus Aepinus
(13 Dec 1724 - 10 Aug 1802)

German mathematician and physicist.


Science Quotes by Franz Ulrich Theodoslus Aepinus (2)

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to their proximate causes and primitive forces, even though the causes of those causes have not yet been detected.
— Franz Ulrich Theodoslus Aepinus
R.W. Home (ed.), Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (1979), 240.
See also:  |  Cause (17)  |  Enquiry (38)  |  Nature (117)  |  Physics (35)

The belief that all things are created solely for the utility of man has stained with many errors that most noble part of physics which deals with the ends of things.
— Franz Ulrich Theodoslus Aepinus
R.W. Home (ed.), Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (1979), 399.
See also:  |  Physics (35)


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