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I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.
