Mary Somerville Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: December 26, 1780 - November 28, 1872
Birthday: December 26
Death: November 28
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been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.
source: Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press
topic: Men, Unity, Mind, Mathematical Proof, Differential Calculus
