There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.