Mary Somerville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.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 Somerville

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Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.
-- Mary Somerville

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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.
-- Mary Somerville

#Math #Unity #Deities
The most savage people are also the ugliest.
-- Mary Somerville

#People #Savages
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
-- Mary Somerville

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The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.
-- Mary Somerville

#Women #Age #Moral
No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.
-- Mary Somerville

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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
No one man is superior to the game.
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.

Mary Somerville famous quotes

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