"We do not dwell in the Palace of……" — Oliver Heaviside
"We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit."
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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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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the…
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Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to…
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