Step By Step Quote by Steven Vogel

“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to…

— Steven Vogel

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand…

— Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords…

— Ernst Mach

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing…

— Ernst Mach

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

— Ernest Rutherford

“The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

— Alessandro Volta

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding…

— Francois Englert