133 Quotes About English-scientist

I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens: two I know perfectly; but have not been able yet to procure the third.

Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.

The mention of hews put me in mind that there is a total failure of that wild fruit, so conducive to the support of many of the winged nation.

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

I guess the good news is that we didn't make any big mistakes in the design of earlier versions of Mathematica that we'd have to go back on now.