29 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Knowledge of Nature is Like an Account at the Bank
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed. 
1 Where the interest compounds and the growth is logarithmic(?).
16 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Atoms Form Compounds With Properties Very Different Than ...
Compounds formed by chemical attraction, possess new properties different from those of their component parts... chemists have long believed that the contrary took place in their combination. They thought, in fact, that the compounds possessed properties intermediate between those of their component parts; so that two bodies, very coloured, very sapid, or insapid, soluble or insoluble, fusible or infusible, fixed or volatile, assumed in chemical combination, a shade or colour, or taste, solub... 1 
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notesIt was long thought in Chemistry that compounds exhibited traits partway between their component parts.
06 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
An Insightful Ancient Observation on the Origins of Things
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution. 1 notes
notesAnaxagoras correctly notes that things come into being as compounds of existing things and dissolve back into compounds.
