3+ Lewis Fry Richardson Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Lewis Fry Richardson quotes and 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

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