34 Quotes About English-mathematician

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

When a mass of matter is to be removed a certain force must be expended; and upon the proper economy of this force the price of transport will depend.

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.

Another contrivance for regulating the effect of machinery consists in a vane or fly, of little weight, but presenting a large surface.

The force of vapour is another fertile source of moving power; but even in this case it cannot be maintained that power is created.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Men do truly more render themselves despicable than others when, without just ground, or reasonable occasion, they do attack others in this way.

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.