4 Quotes by J. Willard Gibbs

Mathematics is a language.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.