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Quotes from On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics — William John Macquorn Rankine

1820–1872 Scotland

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In this branch of study exactness is an essential feature; and mathematical difficulties must not be shrunk from when the nature of the subject leads to them.

On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics (1856)

The most absurd of all their delusions commonly called the perpetual motion, or to speak more accurately, the inexhaustible source of power—is, in various forms, the subject of several patents in each year.

On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics (1856)

The ascertainment and illustration of truth are the objects; and structures and machines are looked upon merely as natural bodies are; namely, as furnishing experimental data for the ascertaining of principles and examples for their application.

On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics (1856)

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