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 (1881-1953)

"... science ought to be subordinate to morals."

— Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)

"Big whorls have little whorls,

That feed on their velocity;

And little whorls have lesser whorls,

And so on to viscosity."

— Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)

"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 (1881-1953)