ABSTRACT
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley We should suspect an intention to reduce God to a system of differential equations. . .
Haldane, J.B.S. Men have fallen in love with statues and pictures. I find it easier to imagine a man falling in love with a differential equation, and I am inclined to think that some mathematicians have done so. Even in a non-mathematician like myself, some differential equations evoke fairly violent physical sensations similar to those described by Sappho and Catullus when viewing their mistresses. Personally, however, I obtain an even greater kick from finite difference equations, which are perhaps more like those which an up-to-date materialist would use to describe human behavior.
