Heaviside Quotes

#1. Extraordinarily, Heaviside didn't bother to patent his invention. The patent was filed instead by AT&T, which had nothing to do with the discovery but nonetheless went on to become one of the largest corporations in the world thanks in large part to its unrivaled lead in long-distance telephony.

Bill Bryson

#2. A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget

Ann Brashares

#3. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If He hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from His love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Euclid for children is barbarous.

Oliver Heaviside

#5. He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.

Julia Quinn

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

Oliver Heaviside

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

Oliver Heaviside

#8. 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.

Oliver Heaviside

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

Oliver Heaviside

#10. I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Michael Steele

#11. We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

Oliver Heaviside

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

Oliver Heaviside

#13. Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Oliver Heaviside

#14. The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

Paul McCulley

#15. They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#16. 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.

Oliver Heaviside

#17. There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her.

Robin McKinley

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

Oliver Heaviside

#19. Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

Oliver Heaviside

#20. Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.

Oliver Heaviside

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

Oliver Heaviside

#22. Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

Meg Ryan

#23. A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Sam Haskins

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

Oliver Heaviside

#25. The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

Laozi

#26. I'm going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I'll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember?

Jaden Wilkes

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

Oliver Heaviside