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> [Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/nothing-has-afforded-me-so-convincing-a-proof-of-the-unity-of-the/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

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> [Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/nothing-has-afforded-me-so-convincing-a-proof-of-the-unity-of-the-2/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

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## More by Mary Somerville

> [The most savage people are also the ugliest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/the-most-savage-people-are-also-the-ugliest/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/no-one-at-this-time-can-duly-estimate-the-importance-of-mrs-marcet-s/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [“It is not always possible to come to an agreement before one goes to sleep but it is possible to go to sleep in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/it-is-not-always-possible-to-come-to-an-agreement-before-one-goes-to/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/the-moral-disposition-of-the-age-appears-in-the-refinement-of/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/television-won-t-last-it-s-a-flash-in-the-pan/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/nothing-has-afforded-me-so-convincing-a-proof-of-the-unity-of-the/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/nothing-has-afforded-me-so-convincing-a-proof-of-the-unity-of-the-2/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

> [No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-somerville/no-circumstance-in-the-natural-world-is-more-inexplicable-than-the/)

[Mary Somerville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-somerville/)

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