Purely Descriptive Quotes
- A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac
- Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science… — John Von Neumann