"There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense."

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Source : Clifford Truesdell (1966). “Six lectures on modern natural philosophy”, Springer

Clifford Truesdell

#Atheism Quotes #Nonsense Quotes #Said Quotes

“You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said”
“The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.”
“My family had liberal positions.”
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”
“Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.”
“you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.”
“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".”

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