Fourier Is A Mathematical Poem.

Large Increases In Cost With Questionable Increases In Performance Can Be Tolerated Only In Race Horses And Fancy Women.

I Often Say That When You Can Measure What You Are Speaking About, And Express It In Numbers, You Know Something About It; But When You Cannot Measure It, When You Cannot Express It In Numbers, Your Knowledge Is Of A Meagre And Unsatisfactory Kind.

I Have Not Had A Moment's Peace Or Happiness In Respect To Electromagnetic Theory Since November 28, 1846. All This Time I Have Been Liable To Fits Of Ether Dipsomania, Kept Away At Intervals Only By Rigorous Abstention From Thought On The Subject.

The Vortex Theory [of The Atom] Is Only A Dream. Itself Unproven, It Can Prove Nothing, And Any Speculations Founded Upon It Are Mere Dreams About Dreams.

Heavier-than-air Flying Machines Are Impossible.