Oliver Heaviside Quote

The real object of true naturalists, in Sir W. Thomson's meaning of the word, when they employ mathematics to assist them, is not to make mathematical exercises (though that may be necessary), but to find out the connections of known phenomena, and by deductive reasoning, to obtain a knowledge of hitherto unknown phenomena.


Electromagnetic Theory (Volume 1), Chapter I (p. 2)


The real object of true naturalists, in Sir W. Thomson's meaning of the word, when they employ mathematics to assist them, is not to make...

The real object of true naturalists, in Sir W. Thomson's meaning of the word, when they employ mathematics to assist them, is not to make...

The real object of true naturalists, in Sir W. Thomson's meaning of the word, when they employ mathematics to assist them, is not to make...

The real object of true naturalists, in Sir W. Thomson's meaning of the word, when they employ mathematics to assist them, is not to make...