
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Heaviside , Oliver (2003), Electromagnetic Theory, Chelsea Publishing Company, Retrieved on 2012-06-04Source Material [books.google.com]
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04 JUN 2012
Fact Can Bewilder in Their Numbers
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, ...Science needs theories to keep from being overwhelmed.