Clifford Truesdell Quotes

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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

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Formerly, the beginner was taught to crawl through the underbrush, never lifting his eyes to the trees; today he is often made to focus on the curvature of the universe, missing even the earth.

Clifford Truesdell

Every physicist knows exactly what the first and the second law mean, but... no two physicists agree about them.

Clifford Truesdell

Clifford Truesdell

Clifford Truesdell

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Born: February 18, 1919

Died: January 14, 2000 (aged 80)

Bio: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.

Known for:

The non-linear field theories of mechanics (1965)
Essays in the history of mechanics (1968)
An idiot's fugitive essays on science (1984)
Rational Thermodynamics (1969)

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