“The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, “Do try to be like other people. Don’t frown.” And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved? — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it, and a schoolboy now can predict what a Faraday then could only guess at roughly. By Ohm 's discovery a large part of the domain of electricity became annexed by Coulomb 's discovery of the law of inverse… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
