All 4 Uses of
physics
in
War and Peace
- The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided.†
Chpt 5 *
- He understood that latent heat (as they say in physics) of patriotism which was present in all these men he had seen, and this explained to him why they all prepared for death calmly, and as it were lightheartedly.†
Chpt 10
- But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.†
Chpt 15
- And as the undefinable essence of the force moving the heavenly bodies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does the force of free will form the content of history.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(physics) the science of matter and energy and their interactions