Source: The Physics Of Baseball (Second Edition - Revised), Chapter 2, The Flight Of The baseball, p. 22
“Fabricating astronomical data going back thousands of years calls for knowledge of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and the ability to solve differential equations.”
N.S. Rajaram: The Politics of History, p.47.
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Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)
Context: Even if without the Scott's proverbial thrift, the difficulty of solving differential equations is an incentive to using them parsimoniously. Happily here is a commodity of which a little may be made to go a long way.... the equation of small oscillations of a pendulum also holds for other vibrational phenomena. In investigating swinging pendulums we were, albeit unwittingly, also investigating vibrating tuning forks.<!--p.224

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“So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton’s equations, are reversible.”
volume I; lecture 46, "Ratchet and Pawl"; section 46-5, "Order and entropy"; p. 46-8
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 2, Measuring The Beast, p. 54.
Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
The Death of Economics (1994)

volume II; lecture 2, "Differential Calculus of Vector Fields"; section 2-1, "Understanding physics"; p. 2-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 442.

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.

“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)