Operation Tumbler-Snapper (nuclear weapon test), Rapatronic, 1952
There is knowledge only when some similarity, sameness, uniformity, analogy, in brief, some „invariance“ is found and given a name. In knowledge, we are always concerned with „invariances“ alone. The full significance of this fact will emerge gradually.
Eino Kaila, ‚On the Concept of Reality in Physical Science. Second Contribution to Logical Empiricism‘, 1979 [1942]
Nova V838 Monocerotis, Hubble Space Telescope, 2002
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