J. Willard Gibbs Quotes


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.

Mathematics is a language

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.