Mary Somerville quotes
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“Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.”
-- Mary SomervilleSource : Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press
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“Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.”
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“Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.”
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“The most savage people are also the ugliest.”
-- Mary SomervilleSource : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.482
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“No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.”
-- Mary SomervilleSource : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479
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“The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.”
-- Mary SomervilleSource : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508
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“No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.”
-- Mary SomervilleSource : Mary Somerville (2010). “Queen Of Science”, p.92, Canongate Books
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