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- How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.
- Clifford Truesdell
- There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
- Gregory Benford - Timescape
- What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
- Javan
- There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
- Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
- anonymous
- Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
- anonymous
- Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience
- quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?"
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