Lewis Fry Richardson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.
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Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.
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Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
-- Lewis Fry Richardson
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
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But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.
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I've got heaps of dreams.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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People's minds are overloaded with information.
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