"Why should I refuse a good dinner simply……" — Oliver Heaviside
"Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?"
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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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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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Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to…
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More Digestive Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.
— Jane Fonda
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History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from…
— Dan Simmons
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Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic…
— Andrew Weil
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Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what…
— Julia Child
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The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.
— Jentezen Franklin
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Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear…
— Ralph Caplan
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The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top…
— Darrel Ray
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If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So…
— Michael Pollan
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As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek…
— Ivan Pavlov
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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