Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

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In a mathematical sense, space is manifoldness, or combination of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, there is the 10-dimension system.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
In this country all a man need to do is to attain a little eminence and immediately he begins to talk. … But the American people are willing to listen to any one who has attained prominence. The main fact is that we've heard a man's name a great many times; that makes us ready to accept whatever he says.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight by making startling predictions of what the future has in store, using as their text the most recent discovery or invention.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Engineering investigations evidently are of no value, unless they can be communicated to those to whom they are of interest.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work — and also of other scientific work — is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Mathematics is merely a shorthand method of recording physical intuition and physical reasoning, but it should not be a formalism leading from nowhere to nowhere, as it is likely to be made by one who does not realize its purpose as a tool.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz