studiot Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 This thread is to offer the opportunity to share clever quotations that people have come across. To kick off here is one from Professor Inglis Having to evaluate an expression of the form 0/0 is the penalty you have to pay for over-idealization and is an indication that the treatment of the problem is at variance with Nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Angel Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 "Matter tells space-time how to curve, and space time tells matter how to move." --John Archibald Wheeler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 All models are wrong, but some are useful — George E.P. Box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfWit Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 “To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” -- R.A. Fisher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdEarl Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Orville Wright No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. Orville Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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