Fourier Is A Mathematical Poem.

If We Can't Express What We Know In The Form Of Numbers, We Really Don't Know Much About It.

The Only Census Of The Senses, So Far As I Am Aware, That Ever Before Made Them More Than Five, Was The Irishman's Reckoning Of Seven Senses. I Presume The Irishman's Seventh Sense Was Common Sense; And I Believe That The Possession Of That Virtue By My Countrymen-i Speak As An Irishman.

I Believe That The More Thoroughly Science Is Studied, The Further Does It Take Us From Anything Comparable To Atheism.

Questions Of Personal Priority, However Interesting They May Be To The Persons Concerned, Sink Into Insignificance In The Prospect Of Any Gain Of Deeper Insight Into The Secrets Of Nature.

Scientific Wealth Tends To Accumulate According To The Law Of Compound Interest. Every Addition To Knowledge Of The Properties Of Matter Supplies The Physical Scientist With New Instrumental Means For Discovering And Interpreting Phenomena Of Nature, Which In Their Turn Afford Foundations Of Fresh Generalisations, Bringing Gains Of Permanent Value Into The Great Storehouse Of Natural Philosophy.