Mathematics Quotes by Oliver Heaviside

8 Mathematics quotes by Oliver Heaviside

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Oliver Heaviside’s eight concise musings on Mathematics illuminate the link between abstract formulas and the flow of electric currents.

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Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to…

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It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the…

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“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,…

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Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

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The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

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Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to…

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“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a…

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Euclid for children is barbarous.

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...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

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Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

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If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in…

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The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

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Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

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Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory,…

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Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which…

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“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…

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