The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into …

- Herbert Turnbull

Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

- Herbert Turnbull

Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significa…

- Herbert Turnbull

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

- Herbert Turnbull