William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quote

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.


Treatise on Natural Philosophy (Two Volumes in One) (ed. 2011)


Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier...

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier...

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier...

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier...