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• Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the…
• The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through…
• The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it…
• [Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...
• There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
• Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain…
• Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.
• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
• Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
• Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it…
• If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
• In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and…

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