Oliver Heaviside Quotes

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?