Lewis Fry Richardson Quotes
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Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.
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Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.
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Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
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Lewis Fry Richardson
- Born: October 11, 1881
- Died: September 30, 1953
- Occupation: Mathematician
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