Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further. Transactions of Conn. Academy , 1892.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya, ca 1938. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool.