Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. - Oliver Heaviside - Quotesmemo.com

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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

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Oliver Heaviside

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

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

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

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

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

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It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally. . obvious.

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We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.

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