Digestion Quote by Oliver Heaviside

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous…

— Oliver Heaviside

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

— Oliver Heaviside

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

— Oliver Heaviside

“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.”

— Leslie Lamport

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

— William Godwin

The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of…

— George Polya

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— Anonymous

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do…

— Sloane Crosley

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny…

— Jack Nicholson

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

— Bill Bryson