"Shall I refuse my dinner because I do……" — Oliver Heaviside
"Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?"
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15 Quotes by Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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More Digestion Quotes
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one of 97 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
— Samuel Butler
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often…
— Unknown Author
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with…
— Pope Leo XII
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and…
— Susan Sontag
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
— Harriet Martineau
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
— John Henry Newman
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
— John Dryden
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
— Walter Scott
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted;…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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