“Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.” KnowsFactsWould BeScienceKnowledgeTheoryEssenceAccountsWorthyScientific KnowledgeMadhouses Author:Oliver Heaviside
“Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.” MatterFactsUseScienceNumbersTheoryHarmonyMutual Author:Oliver Heaviside
“Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.” IfsMayRealScienceForceNatureNaturalTheoryObservationAbstractSpiteQuantityElectricInvolvingMagneticMagnetic Force Book:Electromagnetic Theory Source: Electromagnetic Theory