William Fogg Osgood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Projective geometry is all geometry.
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Music is geometry in time.
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

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