Quotations

Daniel Bernoulli


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... it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Letter to Leonhard Euler, 26 January 1750
... there is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Quoted in C Truesdell, Essays in the History of Mathematics
All birds need to fly are right-shaped wings, the right pressure, and the right angle.