uncorrelated

Updated: May 29, 2025

When we look back through the ages we find men picturing the world as an aggregate of diverse and uncorrelated elements earth, air, fire, and water. The synthesis of facts and the construction of general principles down through Bacon, Newton, and Schopenhauer to modern world conceptions results in the unification of all "the choir of heaven and furniture of earth."

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope

Are they, in short, the direct product of some yet uncorrelated force in nature, changing the dead, the unorganized, the not-living, into definite forms of life? Now this is a profound question, and that it is a difficult one there can be no doubt. But that it is a question for our laboratories is certain.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885