Lewis Fry Richardson Quotes

• 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.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Dream, Weather, Information

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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.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Science, Atmosphere, Littles

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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.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Math, Choices, Merit

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