Josiah Willard Gibbs Quote

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.


Attributed. Cited in R. B. Lindsay, 'On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics', The Scientific Monthly, December 1944


A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.