Oliver Heaviside Quotes

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

  Oliver Heaviside

  Dinner, Process, Should

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• The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Able, Mathematics, Results

  Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Definitions, Firsts

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

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  Science, Engineering, Dinner

  Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 world.

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  Self, World, Wave

  Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• La teoría es la esencia de los hechos. Sin teoría, el conocimiento científico sólo sería digno del manicomio.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Knowledge, Science, Essence

  Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patience, Patient, Logic

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• 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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  Believe, Dwelling, Long

  Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”

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• 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

  Two, Inquiry, Digestion

  "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.

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• 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.

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  Nature, Real, Science

  Oliver Heaviside (2003). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, American Mathematical Soc.

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• 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

  Science, People, Brain

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

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  Nature, Important, May

  Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.519, Cosimo, Inc.

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• However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Desire, May

  "Electrical Papers". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Vol. I; Preface, p. vii, 1892.

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• 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

  Science, Numbers, Use

  Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)

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• Euclid for children is barbarous.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Children, Euclid

  Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”

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• 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

  Understanding, Dinner, Digestion

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• 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.

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  Naturaleza, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• Ohm (un distinguido matemático) puso en orden una serie de hechos desconcertantes que conectaban la fuerza electromotriz y la corriente eléctrica en los conductores, que todos los electricistas anteriores sólo habían logrado unir cualitativamente de forma vaga bajo algunas afirmaciones bastante vagas. Incluso hace 20 años, los términos "cantidad" y "tensión" eran muy utilizados por quienes no apreciaban plenamente la ley de Ohm.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Moving, Wave, Source

  "Electromagnetic Theory, Volume III". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Pub. Co London, p. 1; "The Electrician", 1912.

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