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Oliver Heaviside has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
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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…
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Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
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However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire…
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The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
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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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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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...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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Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not…
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We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time…
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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…
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's…
— Daniel Quinn
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
— Sun Ra
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
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We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time…
— Oliver Heaviside
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When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only…
— Sada Thompson
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
— Erich Fromm
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Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet.…
— Christopher Meloni
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Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
— Cassandra Clare
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I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is…
— Neil Gaiman
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