Fourier Is A Mathematical Poem.

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.

I Believe That The More Thoroughly Science Is Studied, The Further Does It Take Us From Anything Comparable To Atheism.

In Physical Science A First Essential Step In The Direction Of Learning Any Subject Is To Find Principles Of Numerical Reckoning And Practicable Methods For Measuring Some Quality Connected With It. I Often Say That When You Can Measure What You Are Speaking About, And Express It In Numbers, You Know Something About It; But When You Cannot Measure It, When You Cannot Express It In Numbers, Your Knowledge Is Of A Meagre And Unsatisfactory Kind; It May Be The Beginning Of Knowledge, But You Have Scarcely In Your Thoughts Advanced To The Stage Of Science, Whatever The Matter May Be.

I Can Never Satisfy Myself Until I Can Make A Mechanical Model Of A Thing. If I Can Make A Mechanical Model, I Can Understand It. As Long As I Cannot Make A Mechanical Model All The Way Through I Cannot Understand.

All Of Science Can Be Divided Into Physics And Stamp-collecting.