"It appears... that the elastic theories of light, if Kelvin's gyrostatic adynamic ether be admitted, have not been wh…"

"At first the mathematical disciplines were not sharply defined. As knowledge increased, individual subjects split off…"

"Whatever its source, mathematics has come down to the present by the two main streams of number and form. The first c…"

"If the early Greeks were cognizant of Babylonian algebra, they made no attempt to develop or even to use it, and ther…"

"Science is an attempt to represent the known world as a closed system with a perfect formalism. Scientific discovery …"

"Up to this point mathematics alone appeared to Descartes worthy of being called a science. ...in order to establish t…"

"[A]s the great extreme of dimension is sublime, so the last extreme of littleness is in the same measure sublime... w…"

"Edmund Burke, ' (1757) p. 81 of the 1898 edition."

"Copernicus had taken one course in treating the earth as virtually a celestial body in the Aristotelian sense—a perfe…"

"The more man inquires into the laws which regulate the material universe, the more he is convinced that all its varie…"