Oliver Heaviside Quotes

15 quotes in 294 categories

• Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,…
• Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
• Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however,…
• Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
• However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good…
• The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
• Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
• If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.
• ...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process…
• We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all…
• Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite…
• Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations…
• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all…
• Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Browse Oliver Heaviside Quotes by Category