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Facts are of not much use, co...

Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

If it is love that makes the ...

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Criticized for using formal m...

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Electric and magnetic forces....

Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Mathematics is an experimenta...

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

...there is no absolute scale...

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

It is shocking that young peo...

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Mathematics is of two kinds, ...

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

We do not dwell in the Palace...

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.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Now, in the development of ou...

Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, to say nothing of the complexity.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Why should I refuse a good di...

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Theory is the essence of fact...

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Mathematics is of two kinds, R...

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

We do not dwell in the Palace ...

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.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Criticized for using formal ma...

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Shall I refuse my dinner becau...

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Electric and magnetic forces. ...

Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Euclid for children is barbaro...

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

Logic can be patient, for it i...

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

It is shocking that young peop...

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Oliver Heaviside 18 quotes

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