Quote: absolutely general validity is required for the laws of nature, the reciprocal connection of objects and events in time and space

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It is the aim of science to establish … these rules, or laws of nature, absolutely general … of its accomplishment in principle is only founded … ascribe them to human self-deception. The fact that … in certain domains with great precision and certainty … very little of the contents of those laws. … [p. 48] The more a man is imbued with … left by the side of this ordered regularity … of divine will exists as an independent cause …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: the more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left for causes of a different nature

Quote: neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exists as an independent cause of natural events

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