Creatures Quote by Lord Kelvin

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

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and…

— Benjamin Peirce

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

— Peter Tait

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers…

— Stanislaw Lem

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

— Clark Coolidge

Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

— Garry Trudeau

The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical…

— Roger Penrose

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

— Bradley Efron

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material…

— Hilary Putnam

“Vectors never make the same mistake twice,That is why the warrior only risks his heart for something worthwhile.”

— Paulo Coelho

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought…

— Nolan Bushnell

Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change…

— Steven Johnson