Lord of
Lord of
confidence team should-have
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
prayer thinking life-and-death
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
math numbers metaphysics
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
believe moon visionaries
We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
mathematics metaphysics
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
common-sense imagine mathematics
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.
nature interesting priorities
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.
philosophy mean law
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.
events mystery greater
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.
november moments fit
I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.
heat theory mathematical
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...
knowledge soul desire
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.
knowledge progress guarantees
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.
beautiful may analysis
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.