If We Can't Express What We Know

[referring To Fourier's Mathematical Theory Of The Conduction Of Heat] ... Fourier's Great Mathematical Poem.

Accurate And Minute Measurement Seems To The Non-scientific Imagination, A Less Lofty And Dignified Work Than Looking For Something New. But Nearly All The Grandest Discoveries Of Science Have Been But The Rewards Of Accurate Measurement And Patient Long-continued Labour In The Minute Sifting Of Numerical Results.

I Need Scarcely Say That The Beginning And Maintenance Of Life On Earth Is Absolutely And Infinitely Beyond The Range Of All Sound Speculation In Dynamical Science. The Only Contribution Of Dynamics To Theoretical Biology Is Absolute Negation Of Automatic Commencement Or Automatic Maintenance Of Life.

There Is Nothing New To Be Discovered In Physics Now. All That Remains Is More And More Precise Measurement.

Mathematics Is The Only True Metaphysics.