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:::: In a famous conference KekulΓ©, after recalling the metaphor of sitting on the shoulders of giants, concluded exalting the dream and the imagination for the progress of science: | |||
:::::: ''Letβs learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find'' | |||
:::::: ''the truth'' | |||
:::::: ''And to those who donβt think'' | |||
:::::: ''The truth will be given'' | |||
:::::: ''Theyβll have it without effort'' | |||
:::::: ''But let us beware of publishing our dreams till they have'' | |||
:::::: ''been tested by the waking understanding.'' | |||
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Schettino V (2017) Substantia
Abstract: Isaac Newton dedicated a good part of his activity to alchemical experiments. This article tries to discuss the motivations that drove Newton to spend so much of his time in the laboratory: the search for a unitary vision of the forces acting in the macrocosm and in the microcosm, the belief on a hidden prisca sapientia in the occult philosophy to be rediscovered with a scientific approach and the dispute with materialistic philosophy.
β’ Bioblast editor: Gnaiger E
Attraction, affinity, force
* Affinity * Force
- Figure: The cyclic molecular structure of benzene and the ouroboros eating its own tail. Image credit: Haltopub / CC BY-SA.
- In a famous conference KekulΓ©, after recalling the metaphor of sitting on the shoulders of giants, concluded exalting the dream and the imagination for the progress of science:
- Letβs learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find
- the truth
- And to those who donβt think
- The truth will be given
- Theyβll have it without effort
- But let us beware of publishing our dreams till they have
- been tested by the waking understanding.
* Oroboros symbol