"Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought……" — Oliver Heaviside
"Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law."
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Oliver Heaviside
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15 Quotes by Oliver Heaviside
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Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena…
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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
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Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them…
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Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
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However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives.…
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The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
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Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
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If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the…
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...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than…
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Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I…
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We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is…
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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the…
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