Peter Tait Quotes

• The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

  Peter Tait

  Next, Physics, Mathematical

  "Note on a Quaternion Transformation", Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 117, 1866.

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• Ignoramos bastante la condición de la energía en los cuerpos en general. Sabemos cuánto gas entra y cuánto sale, y sabemos si a la entrada y a la salida está en forma de calor o de trabajo. Eso es todo.

  Peter Tait

  Ignorant, Body, Exit

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• Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].

  Peter Tait

  Vision, Pages, Merit

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• [Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

  Peter Tait

  Book, Men, Pay

  "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.

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