Quotations

J Willard Gibbs


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Mathematics is a language
At a Yale faculty meeting
One of the principal objects of research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.