Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles ….

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the con….

Numerical precision is the very soul of science..

Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork..

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat..

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest..

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent..