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• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • knowledge seemed to me to find expression in such men as
  • these. And yet it seemed to me this longing was oppressed by
  • senses and then express in terms of measure, number and
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • express how it works in certain “Laws”. Another classical
  • expression what Goethe feels is fundamental to a true outlook upon
  • themselves express their secrets. He nowhere seeks to recur from the
  • shaken. But even if we do press forward to the atom with our
  • the force in question and the chosen universal unit. If we express it
  • as a weight, it is 0.001019 grammes' weight. Indeed, to express what
  • weighed. So then I have to express myself in terms of something very
  • can only express the concept “mass” by introducing what I
  • resort, it is by a weight that I express the mass, and even if I then
  • go on to atomize it, I still express it by a weight.
  • measuring these possibilities of action; we can express in stated
  • the line taken by that school of Science which is at pains to express
• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • affected, say, by an impression of light or colour — we, that
  • — pressing upon the point for a single moment which of course
  • mass. We express the mass, to begin with, by a weight. We can weigh
  • the object which the force is moving and express the mass of it in
  • equal to, — i.e. the same product can also be expressed by
  • consciously aware of this: — Press with your finger against
  • pressure. Mass, after all, reveals itself through pressure. As I said
  • exert pressure. You make acquaintance with pressure by pressing upon
  • something going on in us when we exert pressure with our finger,
  • — when we, therefore, ourselves experience a pressure —
  • it is, try making the pressure ever more intense. Try it, — or
  • rather, don't! Try to exert pressure on some part of your body and
  • place, so to speak, on a small scale when you exert a pressure that
  • a pressure stronger than you can endure — is taking place
  • contact with an effect of pressure — with an effect, therefore,
  • from the downward pressure of weight.
  • weighed as much as this, it would press so heavily upon the arteries
  • blood. The heavy pressure would immediately cloud our consciousness.
  • with the downward pressure. Precisely this deprives the rest of our
  • as it were, by the downward pressure, we see men being put to sleep.
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• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • due to the light's having less matter to go through, which presses
  • the cylinder of light apart. If I may so express myself, you can read
  • from it. The stronger light in the middle presses upon the weaker
  • have to do so, comes to expression in that I do not see right down as
  • sphere, slightly compressed from front to back. Such is the eye-ball,
  • bring the disc into rotation. The single impression of light has not
  • again before I have time to rid myself of the impressions of the
  • before the impression of the red has vanished. For the eye, the seven
• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • — expressed in Goethe's way, to begin with — is as
  • blue or bluish-red. You need but express the primal phenomenon,
  • in speculation. Newton, having first seen and been impressed by this
  • neighbourhood is, to begin with, compressed. Compressed air arises
  • here. Now the compressed air presses in its turn on the adjoining
  • of attenuated air. Through these successions of compression and
  • is compression here, then comes attenuation, and all this moves on.
• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • light, which it expressed by being luminous still after exposure
  • formula for a velocity, say v. A velocity is expressed, as
  • it is true, v is expressed by the quotient of s and
  • t. What I express by this number v is however a
• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • our eyes. Otherwise our very habit of thought begets the impression
  • which is expressed in “mass”.
  • and finds expression in light and colour there is the vibrating
• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • the effect of it then finds expression in your experience of
  • this “conversation” which finds expression in the
  • rate it receives an impression. This then becomes subjective inner
  • finger — exerting pressure, using some force as you do so,
  • number, a certain figure expresses the relation which can be
  • the numerical expression of the relation between the two.
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • that elapses between your perception of the impression of light and
  • of the qualitative reality which finds expression simply and solely
  • not believe that the sensory impression he experiences is only
  • only have you here before me through my own impressions, which (if
  • that is usually made of the subjective impression (or whatsoever is
  • outer world and finds expression in waves of alternate compression
• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • interaction which can find expression in the form of an electric
  • — so we may somehow express it. Now Hertz made this very
  • may so express myself — the inner character of electricity,
  • fain impress upon your minds. After all, my main purpose in these
• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • has no other value for reality than what finds expression in the
  • expression of this hope, I will conclude our studies for the