“I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry.”

In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.

There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them?

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

What is man? … What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence.

Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.

as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

The mind of man and that of Nature’s God must work in the same channels.

How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.

At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.