The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessary -- being determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.