14 Metaphors for formulas

Where reality conforms to this process it is rational (that which does not conform to it is not reality at all, but has, like an amputated leg, mere contingent existence); the logical formula of this process is but an abstract account of what reality is in its essence.

The formula is P = percent.

The reader cannot fail to see the elements of a system of philosophy in this succinct statement, this outline to be filled up: "The principle of the system lies in the statement that there is in the world a universal formula which may be applied to all sciences, to all things possible: this formula is the trinity.

Newton's formulas, however, are such close approximations that it was difficult to find by observation any obvious disagreement with experience.

The formula is P = percent.

Only, admittedly, as yet the endocrine label is but roughly qualitative and most crudely quantitative, whereas the chemical formula is the essence of the exact.

The Liberal religion of that day, with its ideas of natural theology or of a cold critical Unitarianism, was a very shallow one; the Evangelical, trusting to excitement, had worn out its excitement and had reached the stage when its formulas, poor ones at the best, had become words without meaning.

For obtaining the horse power of a current wheel, the formula is Area of 1 blade × velocity of the current in ft. per sec.

The formula "Poetry is an end in itself" has nothing to say on the various questions of moral judgment which arise from the fact that poetry has its place in a many-sided life.

That formula is: the democracy of the normals.

" The formula adopted in an Act of Congress organizing a Territory, is "An Act to provide a provisional government, etc., etc., etc."

* "Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

THE BIG TOAD That formula is a programme.

But Calvinism had come to mean less to some minds, and there was another turning back to the great source by strong new seekers, to whom the accepted formulas had become empty, dry shells, to be pulverized, and the dead dust kneaded anew with the sweet waters of the ever fresh fountain.

14 Metaphors for  formulas