The Small End of Great Problems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It is perfectly true that the same laws hold good, the same truths are true from the centre to the circumference; but it is one thing to be sure that the same law and truth are there, away at the infinite end of things out of sight, and quite another to be able to see how the law and truth apply there.

For instance - take gravitation. I can make out something of what gravitation means, close here, as it works in what we call weight and in the forces which cause things to stand or fall. But when I follow it out and try to realise what gravitation means between stars millions of millions of miles apart, my mind gets dazed; and when I follow it out further yet, into the abstract question of what gravitation is, and how it is related to the absolute cause and force of this vast universe, then my mind is simply lost, I cannot even form an idea about that. Well, my point is, that if you want to get any real practical hold of this idea of gravitation, you must study it first at the smaller end of it, Close about us.

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