The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.
Quotes about layman (10 Quotes)
In scientific thought we adopt the simplest theory which will explain all the facts under consideration and enable us to predict new facts of the same kind. The catch in this criterion lies in the world 'simplest.' It is really an aesthetic canon such as we find implicit in our criticisms of poetry or painting. The layman finds such a law as dxdt K(d2xdy2) much less simple than 'it oozes,' of which it is the mathematical statement. The physicist reverses this judgment, and his statement is certainly the more fruitful of the two, so far as prediction is concerned. It is, however, a statement about something very unfamiliar to the plain man, namely, the rate of change of a rate of change.
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, ''And whom did you consult before coming to me'' ''Only the village druggist,'' was the answer. ''And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you'' asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. ''Oh,'' replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, ''he told me to come and see you.''
With respect to the first function, genetics provides an example that is accessible to the layman it owes its theoretical paradigm to cybernetics.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
We wanted it to be a conversation between an expert and a layman.
Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
The tough part is, it's really hard for a layman to see evidence of the infection. There were some concerns. Instead of putting everybody at risk, we wanted to have them looked at by a doctor. Better safe than sorry.