"Flocculus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, that their respective motions will be deflected, not towards one side of the common centre of gravity, but towards various sides. How then can there result a movement common to them all? Very simply. Each flocculus, in describing its course, must give motion to the medium through which it is moving. But the probabilities are infinity to one against all the respective motions thus impressed on this medium, exactly ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer |
