Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.