"Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be etern…"

"The molecules of a gas are like angry bees in a jar, but far more mathematical."

"I am not a great mathematician, but I can do a little."

"It is a perfect pleasure to think of anything that is not connected with the examination."

"The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of scienc…"