Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics ... indeed the father of modern science altogether.
‘On the method of theoretical physics’ The Herbert Spencer Lecture delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933. Published in Mein Weltbild (Amsterdam, Querido Verla, 1934) and in Ideas and Opinions (Bonanza Books, New York, MCMLIV) p. 270.
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