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Roger Joseph Boscovich
(18 May 1711 - 13 Feb 1787)
Croatian natural philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Roger Joseph Boscovich (3)
It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria (1758), sec. 1. 5
See also: | Force (14)
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
'De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem', Accademia della scienze, Bologna, Commentarii, 1757, 4, 353, 361. Trans. J. L. Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993), 227.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria (1758), par. 552.
See also: | Gravity (34)
