Big deal Quote by David Stipp

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical world, many…

— John D. Barrow

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

— Johannes Kepler

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture…

— Nikola Tesla

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who…

— Lord Kelvin

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production…

— A. N. Wilson

“for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and…

— Jane Austen

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

— Alan Greenspan

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of…

— Lord Kelvin

“What starts out linear becomes geometric. You”

— Gary Keller

“The starting position of the legs is sometimes described as external rotation.”

— Leslie Kaminoff