Peter Tait Quotes & Sayings

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions. — Peter Tait

We are quite ignorant of the condition of energy in bodies generally. We know how much gas goes in, and how much comes out, and know whether at entrance and exit it is in the form of heat or of work. That is all. — Peter Tait

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'. — Peter Tait