Quotations by William Osgood

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988).

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

JOC/EFR February 2006

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