Differential Equation Quotes
- How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
- There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who… — David Brin
- In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you. — George Polya
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. — Alan Turing
- It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a… — Gilbert Newton Lewis