A light was kindled amongst the investigators of nature when Galilei let balls of a definite weight roll down the inclined plane. For they saw that they only understand what is produced according to a predetermined plan or hypothesis... for otherwise planless observations made according to no ideas could never be brought into the form of a law which reason demands and seeks. ...Thus physics was brought into the position of a certain science after groping about blindly for so many hundred years.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A light was kindled amongst the investigators of nature when Galilei let balls of a definite weight roll down the inclined plane. For they saw that they only understand what is produced according to a predetermined plan or hypothesis... for otherwise planless observations made according to no ideas could never be brought into the form of a law which reason demands and seeks. ...Thus physics was brought into the position of a certain science after groping about blindly for so many hundred years." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, Preface, Critique of Pure Reason (1787) 2nd edition, as quoted by J. W. A. Hickson, "Francis Bacon and Galileo Galilei" (A Comparison of Methods) in The McGill University Magazine (Dec. 1905) Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 260, footnote 2." to mean that wisdom is timeless.