Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as truths of experiment.


Quoted in Michael S. Mahoney, In David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman


The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as...

The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as...

The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as...

The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as...