Quote#Wisdom
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to…
Quote byJosiah Willard Gibbs · 1839–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: From the preface to Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics (1902), p. ix..
English (original)
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.
— Josiah Willard Gibbs
You may also like
One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.
His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.
The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.
What great Effects from slender Causes flow!
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
