Henry Augustus Rowland Quote

A mathematical investigation always obeys the law of the conservation of knowledge: we never get out more from it than we put in.


The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland, The Highest Aims of the Physicist (p. 674), The Johns Hopkins Press. 1902


A mathematical investigation always obeys the law of the conservation of knowledge: we never get out more from it than we put in.

A mathematical investigation always obeys the law of the conservation of knowledge: we never get out more from it than we put in.

A mathematical investigation always obeys the law of the conservation of knowledge: we never get out more from it than we put in.

A mathematical investigation always obeys the law of the conservation of knowledge: we never get out more from it than we put in.