I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.