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1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 241
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE197predict the future, as well as to reveal the past of the whole universe, the history of mankind included, i) This deterministic and even fatalistic conception was expressed by Goethe in his often quoted statement: „Nach ewigen, ehemen Gro ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 242
198G J. SIZOOwhich they had in classical physics and are replaced by a relative geo-chronometry, dependent on the state of movement of the observer. The development of quantum-physics has introduced the observer in a still more fundamental way in the interpretation of physical knowl ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 243
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE199given by Eddington in his proposition, „that all the fundamental laws and constants of physics can be deduced unambiguously from a priori considerations and therefore are wholly subjective" i). Though certainly not all physicists are read ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 244
200G. J. SIZOOThe most terse and paradoxical formulation of this problem has perhaps been given by Einstein in his well-known statement: „Das ewig Unbegreifliche an der Welt ist ihre Begreiflichkeit" i) Louis de Broglie formulated the same problem more circumstantially by saying: „L ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 245
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE201coherent concepts, which are adequately related to the features of the object. This conception means that the objectivistic as well as the subjectivistic interpretation of physical knowledge have both to be rejected, as being tendencies t ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 246
202G. J. SIZOOextensity or intensity and which can be determined by measurement. Such quantifiable qualities are usually called physical quantities or also observables. Evidently, the definition of each physical quantity requires the establishment of a relevant unit and the fixation ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 247
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE203a supei-mathematician or super-geometer i), I feel, that it is only one of the examples of the tendency of man to seek the anchorage for his explanation of the world in one of its aspects, rather than to acknowledge, that all aspects are ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 248
204G. J. SIZOOI do not think that this is the right christian evaluation of scientific knowledge; on the contrary, I am convinced that it is wrong and that is has done much harm to the christian belief. It has occurred from time to time that views and ideas that science had operated ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 249
THE NATURE AND VALUE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE205more than what is possible in the knowledge-relation between man and his environment. We had to give up th econcept of absolute „simultaneity at distance", because nature does not provide us with signals of infinite velocity. We had to ab ...
1965 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 250
206G. J. SIZOOphysicist runs the risk of turning over into the haughtiness of the rationalist. Though modesty suits the physicist, he has also the right to reject an underestimation of his knowledge. Such an underestimating is found in that kind of argumentation, sometimes brought f ...
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