Lewis Fry Richardson Quotes & Sayings

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

Big whirls have little whirls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity. — Lewis Fry Richardson

Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity. — Lewis Fry Richardson

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