Broads Quote by Oliver Heaviside

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the…

— Oliver Heaviside

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

— Oliver Heaviside

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

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

— William Godwin

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

— Oliver Heaviside

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

— Leslie Lamport

Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make…

— Paul Lockhart

I really didn't know how to eat until I studied nutrition in my second year of college.

— Gail Kim

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of…

— Isaac Newton

To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion −…

— Paul Lockhart

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

— Richard P. Feynman

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg