“Every mathematician knows it is impossible to understand an elementary course in thermodynamics.”

V.I. Arnold

“As soon as we venture on the paths of the physicist, we learn to weigh and measure, to deal with time and space and mass and their related concepts, and to find more and more our knowledge expressed and our needs satisfied through the concept of number, as in the dreams of Plato and Pythagoras.”

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson