The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.
James JeansScience should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
James JeansKant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.
James Jeans