Habits Quote by James Gleick

“Dynamic simulators create the behavior of the system by solving the imbedded sets of differential equations using mathematical approximation techniques.”

— Rich Jolly

The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations implies a…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“Our experience teaches us that there are indeed laws of nature, regularities in the way things behave, and that these laws are best expressed…

— Brian Cox

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior…

— Robert L. Devaney

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs

“One can set up a completely self-contained mathematical theory, which proceeds from the elementary laws that are valid for individual points to processes in…

— Bernard Riemann

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those…

— Anonymous

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

— Kurt Gödel

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a…

— Werner Heisenberg

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a self-aware substructure…

— Max Tegmark