"Divisibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... am now combating has its root in the infinite divisibility which belongs to value, as ...
— Essays on Political Economy • Frederic Bastiat
... aware of Mr. Burke's pleasantry on the expression of very little, being greatly diminished; but my exchequer at this time was as well calculated to prove the infinite divisibility of matter, as that of ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... motion, perception from impact: the individuality of a mind is hardly consistent with the divisibility of an extended substance; or its volition, that is, its power of originating motion, with the inertness which cleaves to every portion of matter which our observation or our experiments can reach. These distinctions ...
— Evidences of Christianity • William Paley
... infinite divisibility of space implies that of time. If the latter therefore be impossible, the former must be equally so.' Formulate this argument as ...
— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock
... have reached the point of the utmost divisibility of matter in the atom, we are called upon to go still further and divide the indivisible. The electrons, of which the atom is composed, are one hundred thousand times smaller, and two thousand times lighter than the smallest particle ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs
... magnitude, divisibility)—bodies co-existing in space which are limited, conditioned, relative, dependent, and indicate some relation to that which is self-existent, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker |
